Last week I had to migrate my dns server and to do stuff properly I also added a couple of slave DNS servers just to make sure. Problem: ~15 domain names that need to be added to a fresh bind installation. The zone files didn’t change too much so that was fine, sed helped me [...]
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Parsing XML data using bash and standard Unix tools
Parsing XML can be a tedious and unpleasant job if you insist on using just standard Unix tools like sed, awk, cut, grep and so on. One might say that it’s better to use python/perl/ruby/other language that ships with a full blown XML parser and use the standard Unix utilites for what they were meant [...]
