Re: sed problem

1998-05-21 Thread jcurbo
It worked; thanks! -JC P.S. one other thing, to the list.. anyone know of a program that will feed me *just* the IP address, so I don't have to do the "ifconfig.." mess? On Thu, 21 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > > > if [ -a /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then > > IP=`ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut

sed problem

1998-05-21 Thread jcurbo
I'm using RH 5.0, and I have a dial-up connection to the Net. When I dial in, I run a script containing these lines, to update my /etc/hosts: if [ -a /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then IP=`ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -c 23-34` cat /etc/hosts-up | sed -e s/--IP--/$IP/g > /etc/hosts fi If I