Hi Christoph, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 07:27:55PM +0200, Christoph Fritz wrote: > Command 'findstr' can be for example used to find the string > "MAC=1C:BA:8C:F3:82:BB" in file /dev/eeprom0 to set the > appropriate variable: > > $ findstr -o 4 -l 17 -t eth0.ethaddr MAC /dev/eeprom0 > > Usage: findstr [OPTIONS] <STRING> <FILE> > Find string in file and print it > -o <offset> set offset of string which gets printed > -l <length> set length of string which gets printed > -t <var> print into variable instead of stdio I wonder how useful such a command is. I mean normally I would expect a MAC address to be stored in binary format and not ASCII. Matching 'MAC' (what about the '='?) seems not very robust. What about strings with dynamic lengths? If the command is primarily intended for the MAC address then maybe a more dedicated command or a piece of code called from board code is more robust. If the command is intended as a general eeprom-variable-store then I think it's not flexible enough. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
