Scripting: awk reg. exp.

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 12/05/03

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    Date:         Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:04:09 +0100
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Hi!
    I'm trying to write a little script to automate some changes to
    /etc/qconfig: changing certain host names. I've decided to use awk even
    though (or perhaps "because") I'm not very familiar with it.

    So far, I've come up with:
    {sub(/host = old_name/,"host = new_name");print}
    ...and that works fine, except that it will also make changes to entries
    which have been commented out, which I would prefer to avoid.

    Is there some way of constructing the command so that it does not select
    those lines which have been commented out? Remember: /etc/qconfig uses an
    asterisk as a comment-character, which is damn stupid!

    Simon Green
    Altria ITSC Europe Ltd

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