Pipelining: Translations

At times the attribute names of objects returned from one command do not exactly match the required input names of another, even though the actual data is the same.

For example: the output of the getNetworkApplianceVlans command assigns VLAN ID numbers to the attribute name id, however the deleteNetworkApplianceVlan command requires the argument name vlanId.

To deal with this we have to provide a translation using the -t argument.

If you wanted to delete all the appliance VLANs configured on a network, you would need to provide a translation on the second instance like below.

Don't Run This Command

The below command is instructing Meraki-CLI to delete all MX firewall VLAN interfaces configured on a particular network. It is provided as an example of a use case.

Don't run it unless that is explicitly what you are trying to do.

meraki appliance getNetworkApplianceVlans --networkId N_12345 | meraki -t "vlanId=id" appliance deleteNetworkApplianceVlan

The -t "vlanId=id" argument is effectively telling the receiving program to use the id attributes of its input to fill the vlanId argument required by the deleteNetworkApplianceVlan command.