Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]> · Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:25:21 +0100

(One block of output was missing in previous mail)

On 02.03.2018 01:19, Andrew Johnson wrote:

If an IOC has a lot of aliases the output from dbla doesn't help you
find all the pseudonyms of a specific record unless you do some
post-processing of its output. I can see the need for the reverse
search, but I think I'd like to see that provided as a new command since
it's conceptually slightly different. I looked up 'alias' in a thesaurus
and the term nicknames seems the most promising — how about dblnn:

epics> help dbla
dbla pattern
epics> dbla
ao -> anj:ao
ao1 -> anj:ao
ai -> anj:ai
ai1 -> anj:ai
epics> help dblnn
dblnn pattern
epics> dblnn anj:a*
anj:ao <- ao ao1
anj:ai <- ai ai1

How different is that to your current arguments and output format? Can
you show us an example?

The change in the code is quite small: instead of testing only the alias

name against the pattern test the record name was well.

Original dbla and my version show the same output without argument
epics> dbla
ai -> anj:ai
ai1 -> anj:ai
ao -> anj:ao
ao1 -> anj:ao

Original dbla and my version show the same output with alias pattern
epics> dbla *1
ai1 -> anj:ai
ao1 -> anj:ao

My version shows more output with record pattern
epics> dbla anj:a*
ai -> anj:ai
ai1 -> anj:ai
ao -> anj:ao
ao1 -> anj:ao

epics> dbla anj:ai
ai -> anj:ai
ai1 -> anj:ai

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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