From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 13:39:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A4E16A41C for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 13:39:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3EA343D46 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 13:39:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish ([69.172.31.81]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with SMTP id <20050703133909.ISPY29002.mta9.adelphia.net@barbish> for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 09:39:09 -0400 From: "fbsd_user" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 09:39:04 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: help with sh script X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:39:11 -0000 What is the sh coding to strip the periods from a IP address?? raw_ip='10.0.10.5' this is starting num_ip='100105' and this is what I need to convert to. thanks in advance