Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!crdgw1!sungod!davidsen From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Pathalias question Message-ID: <1443@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 2 Aug 89 15:21:19 GMT References: <1242@psuhcx.psu.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 12 In article <1242@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes: | I want to get rid of the lll-winken!ames!think!bloom-beacon!garp, but not | to route anything more through psuvax1 than I have to. You'll kick yourself... just use sed to delete the leading crap. sed 's/ [^ ]*!psuvax1/psuvax1/' mypaths >betterpaths My makefile for paths does quite a bit of stuff like this, for just the same reason. bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me