sending a variable to the host file

[robert3975]

Was wondering if I could send a variable keyed by a user to the /etc/host file. I know that you can do it in vi but can this be scripted ?

eg

echo key in a Printer and Path!

home-01 123.123.....

read path

then what?

 

[KenCunningham]

Are you just trying to grep a printer name from /etc/hosts? If so, grep <printername> /etc/hosts will do it.

However, it sounds as if you have a more detailed requirement?

 

[robert3975]

I was trying to be a little clever I was wanting to insert what has been key in to a log file

so

eg I put
home-1 123.123
read path and put that into log
ex command
I think its echo $path > /opt/bin/tst.log

 

[Mike042]

You can append lines of data to a file with:
echo "$data" >> /path/to/file

But I would be very wary of appending information to the /etc/hosts file. Also note that on Solaris it is, by default, a Read Only file (even for root).

I hope that helps.

Mike

 

[kHz]

With Korn you can trap the keyboard.