brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell) (07/28/90)
I'm trying to hack into a sendmail.cf something like Sun's NIS ($%y) lookup on a non- NIS machine. If you think I'm going about this the wrong way, speak up. Basically, I can, with grep, awk, sed, sort and uniq create a list of simple (non-domain-qualified) hostnames in my local domain from my /etc/hosts. My question is: Can the "Fc |" syntax be used with a command line that includes pipes, or is it restricted to a single command. I.e., can I do something like: Fy | grep -v '^#' /etc/hosts | awk '{print $2}' If so, do I need quotes around the entire command or other syntactic sugar? Please respond by mail. Brian H. Powell, M/S 56-14 National Instruments Corp. brian@natinst.com 6504 Bridge Point Parkway uunet!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!brian Austin, Texas 78730-5039 AppleLink:NATINST (512) 338-9119