Syntax of 'show babel' commands?

Chris Webb chris at arachsys.com
Mon Oct 13 13:46:16 CEST 2025


Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:

> I think what's happening is a symbol collision: you've named your babel
> instance 'babel', but the command line parser has 'babel' as a reserved
> keyword, so it barfs.

Oh, fun. That'll be why I never noticed it before too, because I had
multiple protocols called babel1, babel2, etc.

> Or, given that you only have on instance, just run 'show babel
> interfaces' with no arguments...

When it's called 'babel', even that turns out to break:

  bird> show babel interfaces
  syntax error, unexpected CF_SYM_KNOWN

All is fixed once I rename the protocol, as you say. Thanks!

Best wishes,

Chris.


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