On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Steve Brooks <steveb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > Why are you doing all that piping and grepping? And the -F" " confuses > > me...oh, I see. First, whitespace is the default field separator in awk. > > Then, are you asking if there's a line with a "." in it, or just any > > non-whitespace? If the latter... mmm, I see, you *really* don't > understand > > awk. > > > Ok Mark very nice of you to help Craig. He does not claim to be an expert > in "awk" or even competent ---> Which is obviously why he is asking for > help in the first place. No need for the sarcasm and to belittle the > poster. Remember lots of people looking for help will be directed to this > answer and your help could be much appreciated.... > > Regards, > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Hello there! The best Help for awk beginners is to implement it with other tools for now if it's urgent, and debug your syntax and regex code. Start here: http://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/1/sed/ You may also want to try and print awk to tty, start by that to debug your code until you find the solution http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~oostr102/docs/nawk/nawk_92.html your main issue was, that you are asking about nginx.conf , which is not part of the stock installation, and your file can look like anything depending on custom configuration. -- Best Regards, Yonatan Pingle RHCT | RHCSA | CCNA1 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos