Allegedly, on or about 17 October 2018, Mike Wright sent: > I have a set of dns zone text files in "bind" format. On the fourth > line there is a 10 digit timestamp (ignoring white space, the first > field). There is no way to predetermine the value so search and > replace by value is a no go and seems to require some positional > approach such as "line 4, first 10 digit field". Do you care what the value *was*? If not, find the line, and replace the entire line, simply setting the serial number to a new value. e.g. year+month+day+hour+minute+second DNS serial numbers merely have to be greater than the prior value to be paid attention to. If you use that technique, it's virtually guaranteed. NB: if more than one thing changes serial numbers using this method, pay attention to timezones (for the generated numbers) and get everything to generate GMT/UTC derived ones. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Television should really come with an intelligence knob. I've tried adjusting the brightness, but it didn't help. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx