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To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
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Subject: Re: suggested hack for ntpdate flags 
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:10:10 -0600
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
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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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