Re: Updating /etc/hosts automatically / behavior of sed command

2013-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 10:14:54AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Tad Frank wrote: > > Your issue lies in the line: sed -e "s/$REGISTERED_IP/$CURRENT_IP/g" > > /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.new > > I searched debian-devel for the message to which you are responding; > the most recent message with that sub

Re: Updating /etc/hosts automatically / behavior of sed command

2013-07-05 Thread Thomas Hood
Tad Frank wrote: > Your issue lies in the line: sed -e "s/$REGISTERED_IP/$CURRENT_IP/g" > /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.new I searched debian-devel for the message to which you are responding; the most recent message with that subject header dates from December 1999. Yes, people were dynamically updat

Re: Updating /etc/hosts automatically / behavior of sed command

2013-07-04 Thread Tad Frank
Your issue lies in the line: sed -e "s/$REGISTERED_IP/$CURRENT_IP/g" /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.new Take a look at the modification I made below, it should help. if [ $CURRENT_IP != $REGISTERED_IP ] ; then echo -n "IP address has changed: creating a new /etc/hosts file" sed -i.old "s/$REG