Am 18.08.20 um 07:12 schrieb Mario V Guenzi: > At first many thanks. > another question given your kindness, > I can use bash only to define my variables eg > EXTIF = "eth0" > LAN = "192.168.2.0/24" > etc > use the variables defined in writing the rules.nft file as per your > example and then write > nft -f /path/rules.nft in my bash script? surely how would nft know if you have written "rules.nft" by hand or from a script? doing the same with generated bash scripts for years