A scripting question (harder than I thought)

[William Park]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 08:02:53PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I use the aggregate sorbs zone to cut down on DNS traffic.  Sorbs
>   has that IP address listed under 4 categories, and returns 4 lines.
>   Do I need to use Python or something similar ?

While I'm at it... If you follow line-by-line approach, then Python
script will not be that different from shell/sed/awk.  A different
approach would be to read the whole file and split out the blocks as
string.

1.  In Python,

	all = open('logfile', 'r').read()
	a = all.split('\n\n')
	for i in a:
	    print i.replace('\n\n', '')

2.  Using my Bash patch,
	http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#bash
    you would do something similar,

	all=`cat logfile`
	a=()
	array -j $'\n\n' a "$all"
	printf '%s\n' "${a[@]//$'\n'/}"

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