Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:10:10 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggested hack for ntpdate flags Message-ID: <200006280110.e5S1AB657245@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:19:56 EDT." <20000627151956.D1800@numachi.com>
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>>>>> "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.
--lyndon
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