jail_box_ip="<insert hundreds of ips here>"

[Redd Vinylene]

jail_box_ip=$( jot -w "66.252.2.%d" -s "," 124 4 )

What a gorgeous solution ;)

Thanks man!

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> Redd Vinylene wrote:
>>
>> Hey, I got a couple of hundred IPs, is there an easy way to add them
>> all to jail_box_ip="ip1,ip2,ip3" without making like the longest line
>> ever?
>>
>> Like this?
>>
>> jail_box_ip="66.252.2.4,\
>> 66.252.2.5,\
>> 66.252.2.6,\
>>
>> Unfortunately that doesn't look too good.
>>
>> Nor does:
>>
>> export x=$(cat ips);export jail_ips=''; for ip in $x; do export
>> jail_ips="$jail_ips,$ip"; done; export jail_ips=$(echo $jail_ips | sed
>> s/,$/''/ | sed s/^,//);
>>
>> Is there a more beautiful alternative?
>
> /etc/rc.conf is just /bin/sh code.  All you need to do is set
> the variables -- usually by assigning a static string, but you
> can use whatever constructs you want.  Well - within reason.  Making
> something as critical as the system boot process depend on a bunch of
> other files or processes is not a good idea on the whole.
>
> You can include multi-line whitespace in the variables by using single
> quotes:
>
> jail_box_ip='66.252.2.4,
>             66.252.2.5,
>             66.252.2.6,
>            66.252.2.7'
>
> Assuming that the init script that processes this data isn't phased
> by the inclusion of a bit of whitespace.
>
> Or you can generate the required numbers, assuming they are
> consecutive:
>
> jail_box_ip=$( jot -w "66.252.2.%d" -s "," 5 4  )
>
>        Cheers,
>
>        Matthew
>
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