[OpenWrt-Devel] uci delete doesn't match documentation

[Yousong Zhou]

On 5 November 2015 at 22:44, Karl Palsson <karlp at tweak.net.au> wrote:
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> I'm trying to work out _a_ way of ensuring that a UCI config file
> has a given section type with a given name.
>
> While trying to test out the various methods, I've been deleting
> files from /etc/config, but I was just trying "uci delete config"
> which is documented as being valid.
>
>         delete     <config>[.<section>[[.<option>][=<id>]]]
>
> However, providing just a <config> argument to delete is refused.
>
> karlp at cuth:~/src/uci/lua $ uci show remake
> remake. at plugins[0]=plugins
> karlp at cuth:~/src/uci/lua $ uci delete remake
> uci: Invalid argument
> karlp at cuth:~/src/uci/lua $
>
> This is either a bug in the documentation or the utility.
> (Preferably the utility, it seems like a reasonable feature to
> exist)
>

Just skimmed the relevant code and it looks like the code explicitly
requires at least a section name to be specified.  So it's more likely
a usage documentation problem.

                yousong


> Sincerely,
> Karl P
>
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