Einarc

Mikhail Yakshin wrote:

• Make intelligent automatic guess for --adapter: if there are no --adapter specified and there is a single adapter in a system, use this one.

or add a parameter --all-adapters or somesuch. It would be good for generic scripts, when one has no idea what adapter(s) are in a machine.

Andras Horvath wrote:

or add a parameter --all-adapters or somesuch. It would be good for generic scripts, when one has no idea what adapter(s) are in a machine.

In fact, it could be easily implemented in shell. einarc -l outputs a list of all adapters, for it could be just iterated over it. Something like:

einarc -l | cut -f1,2 | while read L; do
    AD_TYPE=$(echo "$L" | cut -f1)
    AD_NUM=$(echo "$L" | cut -f2)
    einarc -t $AD_TYPE -a $AD_NUM "some sort of clever command here" 
done

In fact, it's much more generic that --all-adapters, as it allows you to enter any number of arbitrary commands. However, we can improve this interface by making something like that:

for I in $(einarc --list-adapter-ids); do
    einarc --adapter-id=$I "some sort of clever command here" 
done

I.e. may be we should implement a special command to output distinct, whitespace-separated (newline-separated), clear universal adapter IDs. For example, we could pack "adapter module" and "adapter number" into single string, such as areca:1. Of course, the option names I've proposed are to be discussed, that's what I've got from the top of my head.

Points 1 and 4 from original task are complete.

1. If einarc is called from interactive shell, use humanize automatically.

Done in r1680