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From: dennis@nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: lcnode, lcnet, ns_helper (was: TZ command under sr10.3)
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Date: 16 Apr 91 19:32:55 GMT
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Jim Rees:
> It occurs to me that there must be some way to get ns_helper to tell you the
> names of all the nodes in your Domain internet ...

Paul Szabo:
> List the ns_helper database using the edns command ('man edns' for more info):

Edns will give me the info I want -- but the darned thing is interactive
so you can't give it command line arguments to run it from a script (as in
'edns -ld').

Well, sort of true.  I just tried rerouting stdin:

   #!/bin/sh
   edns <<EOF
   ld
   q
   EOF

and it works, but ugly.  It also prints an extraneous header id line and
a summary line at the bottom that would have to be filtered out.  (But
then, that's what Perl's for, right?)  Whatever happened to the Unix
approach of making tools to be used together?

   Dennis Cottel, dennis@NOSC.MIL, (619) 553-1645  
   Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152