[rancid] excluding output from cisco routers and switches relating to Flash: bootflash:

[heasley]

Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 06:24:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon:
> On 03/01/2016 16:50, Ian Stong wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I need to exclude the following output from rancid as it always shows
> > changes to the Flash: bootflash:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Sample below of what it is seeing as a change
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > - !Flash: bootflash: 273633  drwx             8192  Dec 31 2015 06:27:53
> > -04:00  tracelogs
> > 
> > + !Flash: bootflash: 273633  drwx             8192  Dec 31 2015 13:55:48
> > -04:00  tracelogs
> 
> 
> modify the perl code with a suitable regex to detect the line you want
> removed. The form is usually something like this:
> 
> next if /insert some regex here/;
> 
> The code is peppered with 10s of examples, and the question has been
> asked and answered many times here. It's somewhat of an FAQ.

There already is a filter for this w/ ios-xe, which had a bug in some old
version causing this to endlessly change.