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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to replace control characters using sed? Post 41855 by oombera on Thursday 16th of October 2003 02:13:30 AM
Old 10-16-2003
linuxer_rh: What does that line do?

From my understanding, hillxy is not looking to replace the exact phrase "new line". And he isn't looking to replace anything with the control character \0a ... he's looking to replace the control character \0a
 

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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).

kumoctl 							     July 2009								KUMOCTL(1)
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