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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Want to replace characters Post 302162516 by clx on Tuesday 29th of January 2008 07:14:02 AM
Old 01-29-2008
sure.. my pleasure ...
this is sed (stream editor) systex....
general syntec is s/what_to_find/from_what_to_replace/g


the value betweek the slashes may be a text/string or any regular expression ( google it if u dont know about this)

so since ^ has an special mening in regex.. s i escaped it with \.

Hope its clear...

Anchal
 

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kumoctl

KUMOCTL(1)						      General Commands Manual							KUMOCTL(1)

NAME

       kumoctl - show kumofs status

SYNOPSIS

       kumoctl address[:port=19750] command [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Show status of kumo-manager and send control commands to kumo-manager.

COMMANDS

       status show status of the cluster

       attach attach all new servers and start replace

       attach-noreplace
	      attach all new servers

       detach detach all fault servers and start replace

       detach-noreplace
	      detach all fault servers

       replace
	      start replace without attach/detach

       full-replace
	      start full-replace (repair consistency)

       backup [suffix=20090304]
	      create backup with specified suffix

       enable-auto-replace
	      enable auto replace

       disable-auto-replace
	      disable auto replace

STATUS

       hash space timestamp
	      The  time  that the list of attached kumo-servers is updated. It is updated when new kumo-server is added or existing kumo-server is
	      down.

       attached node
	      The list of attached kumo-servers. (active) is normal node and (fault) is fault node or recoverd but not re-attached node.

       not attached node
	      The list of recognized but not-attached nodes.

AUTO REPLACING

       By default, you have to attach new kumo-servers manually using kumoctl command. If the auto replacing  is  enabled,  new  kumo-servers  are
       attached automatically.	This is experimental feature.

EXAMPLE

       $ kumoctl mgr1 status

       $ kumoctl mgr1 attach

SEE ALSO

       kumo-manager(1).

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