A Little Bigpipe Wowness I Wasn’t Aware Of

As Jeff posted this morning, we’re well into our DevCentral MVP Summit here in Chicago.  During one of the challenge solution reveals, Matt Cauthorn (yes, THE Matt Cauthorn) showed a bigpipe command that I really wish I knew about years ago.  Actually, the command isn’t new, but range ability within the command is what caused the jaw to hit the floor.

[root@kitchensink:Active] config # b pool newPool { members 192.168.{1..2}.{1..3}:80 }
[root@kitchensink:Active] config # b pool newPool list
pool newPool {
   members {
      192.168.1.1:http {}
      192.168.1.2:http {}
      192.168.1.3:http {}
      192.168.2.1:http {}
      192.168.2.2:http {}
      192.168.2.3:http {}
   }
}

I’ve written scripts in perl, python, & tmsh to do this with for loops, but wow, I had no idea you could use ranges in bigpipe.  Thought I’d share…

Update: I had an error in the syntax above, I used parentheses instead of curly braces.  Fixed inline.