Further reading

Documentation:

• TextFSM

Articles:

• Programmatic Access to CLI Devices with TextFSM. Jason Edelman (26.02.2015) - TextFSM basics and development ideas that formed the basis of ntc-ansible module

• Parse CLI outputs with TextFSM. Henry Ölsner (24.08.2015) - an example of using TextFSM to parse a large file with sh inventory output. Explains TextFSM syntax in more detail

• Creating Templates for TextFSM and ntc_show_command. Jason Edelman (27.08.2015) - TextFSM syntax is discussed in more detail and examples of ntc-ansible module usage are shown

  (note that syntax of module has already changed slightly)

• TextFSM and Structured Data. Kirk Byers (22.10.2015) - an introductory article on TextFSM. This does not describe syntax but gives an overview of what TextFSM is and an example of its use

Projects that use TextFSM:

• Module ntc-ansible

TextFSM templates (from ntc-ansible module):

• ntc-templates