Hello Robert.

14 Jun 04 13:27, you wrote to all:

 RC> Hello everybody.

 RC> I am a newbie Linux user and have no clue about regular expressions
 RC> and bash scripting and such, so I am turning to you for assistance. :)

 RC> This is what I would like to do for now:

 RC> Right a batch script that will test my IP and compare it to the one in
 RC> the nodelist segment I maintain.  If it is different, I want it to
 RC> update the nodelist segment to the new IP if it has changed.

 RC> It will also have to convert the ip quad's ".'s" to
"-'s".

 RC> Can sombody point me in the right direction?  A small example would be
 RC> awesome.  Once I have an example, I can adapt to my needs.

 Perl would probably work best for this, bash scripts aren't all that
useful for parsing data and changing it.


 RC> I find I learn better from examples than man pages.  I hate man pages
 RC> ... ;)

 I could probably write one in PHP, however I'm sure some of the Perl gurus
could give you a better example.



Mike

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