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Date:      29 Jun 2000 01:13:22 +0200
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@no-spam.citeweb.net>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: suggested hack for ntpdate flags
Message-ID:  <em5hxuul.fsf@pc166.gits.fr>
In-Reply-To: Brian Reichert's message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:45:10 -0400"
References:  <20000627151956.D1800@numachi.com> <200006280110.e5S1AB657245@orthanc.ab.ca> <20000627214510.A6905@numachi.com>

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Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:10:10PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> writes:
> > 
> >     Brian> ntpdate_flags="`sed -n 's/^server \(.*\)/\1/p' <
> >     Brian> /etc/ntp.conf`"
> > 
> > I have always used:
> > 
> >   awk '/^server/ {print $2}' /etc/ntp.conf
> > 
> > The awk version doesn't suffer from lines in ntp.conf like:
> > 
> >   server ntp.foo.bar prefer
> > 
> > and I find it a bit more readable than the equivelent sed.
> 
> Yup, more rigorous.  I'll give it a shake...

don't forget the -b (mandatory) and -s (optional) flags also.

Cyrille.
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