On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:42:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need a sed invocation to extract quotes (") from around a string.
>
> Basicly `cat /etc/bind/named.conf | grep zone | cut -d " " | sed $something'
>
> to give me a list of zones I run bind for so I can:
> for zone in `$sedcsript`
> do
> $SOME $zone $MANAGENENT
> done
>
> or if there is a better way......
> I get tired of hand editing....esp since I can't seem to remember cut&paste
> in vi
well, perl is a resource hog, but that's because it can do just
about anything, in eleven keystrokes... :)
but if you're determined to use smaller components, how about
$zones = `grep ^zone < /etc/bind/named.conf | cut -f2 '-d"'`
man cut
of course, you could use 'sed' if you absolutely felt obliged
to... :)
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