in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Glenn Dawson thusly... > > At 02:12 PM 12/9/2005, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > I was hoping to get only the A records from a dns zone file so > >the expression I used is: > > > >egrep [[:space:]IN[:space:]A[:space:]] zone_file >h0 > > > > Had it worked, all that would have appeared in the h0 file was > >all the A or Address records. Instead, I get those plus almost > >everything else in the file. > try: > > egrep "IN[^[:alnum:]]+A" zone_file
For even finer results, use word boundaries ... egrep '\bIN[^[:alnum:]]+A\b' file egrep '\<IN[[:space:]]+A\>' file - Parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
