Re: Finding all the PVs on an IOC

[Maren Purves <m.purves@jach.hawaii.edu>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, David Dudley wrote:

> If you're really desparate to find every single solitary one, you could
> iterate through all combinations of a 39 char string, and attempt to
> attach to them all, and save the ones you attach to, but that would
> probably take a little while (OK, a long....long...long while  ;-).
>
> I've actually done that on a shorter string, where I knew all but the
> last 4 chars  ;-)

for that I'd use dbgrep:

dbgrep "*<string that you know>*"

I have used that numerous times during the last few
weeks when I had constantly changing record types
and names and sometimes didn't quite remember
what I currently had (or just wanted to get the
record names out to paste into dbpr).

Aloha,
Maren