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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:37:15 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
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Subject: Re: IPFW: delete range of rules?
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In the last episode (Nov 29), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said:
> Hey all, the ipfw man page says rules can be deleted individually or
> in groups, but I don't see (other than the sets) an easy way to craft
> deletion of rules in a range (for example, 500-550).

You could expand the rules before calling ipfw:

  ipfw delete $(jot - 500 550 1)

or, if you use zsh:

  ipfw delete {500..550}

It would also be possible to extend the ipfw 'delete' rule parser to
handle ranges.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com