Thanks to all!! I received a overwhelming number of responses. Presently I'm working to implement LDAP in around 700 UNIX boxes of different flavors. I was having problem populating my directory with the format of the hosts file i was given and i needed to make the format change. Couple of day ago I posted a LDAP question and I didnt get not even single response. So I thought maybe there werent as many people using this list as they used to be. But today when I got all the responses regarding my vi editor question, I'm thrilled!! Thanks all again! well the solutions was rather simple. I used awk cat /etc/hosts | awk '{ print $2 " " $1 }' > hosts.newfile -----Original Message----- From: Karki, Prabhat [mailto:pkarki01@sprintspectrum.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:38 PM To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: vi editor Hello all, I have a /etc/hosts file where there are two columns. One of hostname and one of IP addresses. eg: hostA x.x.x.x hostb x.x.x.x hostc x.x.x.x . . . hostz x.x.x.x I need to switch the column so that the first column becomes that of IP address and the second that of hostname. There are around 1000 entries so doing one at a time is ridiculous. Is there a vi editor command to switch the columns?? Any tip would be great. TIA Prabhat Karki. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Jul 31 20:43:01 2001
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