[rancid] Re: Understand some regex used in rancid

[john heasley]

Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:36:50PM -0700, Lance Vermilion:
> I don't understand what this is meaning. i have searched around but
> still can't figure out what the # sign is used for in perl regex like
> it is being used here.
> 
> while (/#\s*($cmds_regexp)\s*$/) {

the # is a #, the end of the enabled user's prompt.

> 
> If I can figure this out then I will have the IPS module working for
> rancid using the default clogin/rancid with only minor tweaks.
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