On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:32:31AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:20:20PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > configured to say office, I want to be able to run my reset bash > > script as follows: > > > > reset eth0=internet > > I suggest you choose a different name, as reset(1) is already taken.
Ack. > If your script is supposed to take two pieces of information, I would > suggest that you pass them as two separate arguments, rather than one > argument with '=' in the middle of it. That said, parsing foo=bar is > not terribly hard, so you *could* do it this way... but it's not the > way I would choose. In general yes I agree, but in this case, I allow for multiple eth devices to be reset with a single call of the script, so parse each pair if needed (since not all device types have the mappings, in my setup, only some). Thanks again,