<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="margin:0px"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">The Force10s that my company uses seem to produce the following lines when running "show run":</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style:normal">! Version 9.7(0.0)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style:normal">! Last configuration change <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2019-10-10%2010:13:32%20IST" style="word-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(149,79,114)">at Wed Oct 10 10:13:32</a> 2018 by <user></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style:normal">! Startup-config last updated <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2019-07-26%2003:00:20%20IST" style="word-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(149,79,114)">at Fri Jul 26 03:00:20</a> 2019 by <user></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Helvetica">The change I made simply filters these lines:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Helvetica"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">[rancid@tvvsmtarist001 ~]$ diff -u ran-bin/usr/libexec/rancid/f10rancid /usr/local/rancid/bin/f10rancid</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">--- ran-bin/usr/libexec/rancid/f10rancid        <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2019-07-26%2012:00:00%20IST" style="word-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-word">2019-07-26</a> 08:45:09.956957727 +0000</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">+++ /usr/local/rancid/bin/f10rancid     <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2019-07-26%2012:00:00%20IST" style="word-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-word">2019-07-26</a> 08:33:03.536463469 +0000</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">@@ -443,6 +443,9 @@</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">        # skip crap</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">        /^Current Configuration/ && next;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">+        # CUSTOM: killing more variable stuff</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">+        /^! (Version|Last configuration|Startup-config last)/ && next;   </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">+</p></div><br><div class="gmail_signature" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">It would be nice if a variant of this change could end up in the main force10 module.</div><div class="gmail_signature" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Thanks!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_signature"> <br></div></body></html>