On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Wallace Nicoll wrote:
> I'm trying to do some massaging of host/dmomain names as part of an
> anlog run, rather than do it using grep/awk/sed etc.
>
> I'm running against intranet domain names which are of the form
> host.section.department.
> eg it1.it.finance, where the IT section is part of Finance Department.
> Some of the old logs have host entries of it1.finance, it2.finance,
> without the section element.
>
> I'd like to be able to analyse the old logs and move it1.finance to
> it1.it.finance. Is there anything, like that used in sed to take the
> element in the left hand part of the HOSTALIAS and drop it into the
> second. For example ...
>
> HOSTALIAS it*.finance it*.its.finance
>
> It's obviously dependent on the hostname being of a common format,
> otherwise I can do this simply with a bunch of HOSTALIAS lines, but it
> might be useful if there were an option to do the above.
>
>
No, sorry, this is beyond analog's pattern matching at the moment. However,
I am half-way through writing some code that will do this for a future
version.
Yours,
--
Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
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