On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:36:47 -0500 (CDT) Adam Maloney <adamm at sihope.com> wrote: >Jot is a neat one - it's part of standard BSD, I've never seen it included >in a Linux distro. From the manpage: >NAME > jot - print sequential or random data > >Yeah, it sounds really dull and stupid, but you wouldn't believe how handy >it is. Like to setup an in-addr zone quickly: > >jot 254 1 | \ >awk '{ printf("%s\t\tIN\tPTR\t192-168-1-%s.domain.com.\n", $1, $1) }' >gives: >1 IN PTR 192-168-1-1.domain.com. >2 IN PTR 192-168-1-2.domain.com. >... >254 IN PTR 192-168-1-254.domain.com. The example you did here can also be done with seq _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list