Thanks. I'll start brushing up on sed. I was hoping there may be a set of command line tools already out there for these types of specific tasks. I suppose that is what all the nice front ends for named are for :)
-- Scott Iphone says hello. On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:46 PM, David Forrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Scott Haneda wrote: > >> I have an A record change that needs to happen across many zones. I >> have the old ipand of course the new ip. Can someone help me with a >> command to find and replace across multiple files please. >> >> I also will need to do a serial update as well, and that could be any >> number and not cinsistant. >> >> I am using unix not windows. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Scott >> Iphone says hello. >> > > seems like an ideal situation for "sed" as it can be globally applied. > There are a few things to watch out for; in some cases you will look > for a > full IP and, in others, only a host IP, and the serial number could be > applied only to changed files (using "find" for a recent change) > using the > current date/time period as a key. I don't see a problem using the > standard YYYYMMDD## scheme. If you use some non-incremental system, > remember that the serial number must be a higher (larger) number. > > David Forrest e-mail: drf @ maplepark.com > Maple Park Development Corporation http://www.maplepark.com > St. Louis, Missouri >
