Saturday, November 11, 2006
Updating zone file serial numbers with sed
I made some mods to all my zone files just now (changed name servers) and needed to update all the serials as well. The name server change was easy enough:
# sed -i 's/from/to/g' db.*
But changing the serial is a little tricker. A serial number is in the form YYYYMMDDNN where NN is the update number for that day. So today would be 2006111100. This is the forumla:
# sed -i 's/200[0-9]\{7\}/2006111104/g' db.*
This says to replace any text starting with 200 and followed by 7 digits with 2006111104 . I should add this to the sed one liners page: http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
BTW, my high school web page is now on my servers.
# sed -i 's/from/to/g' db.*
But changing the serial is a little tricker. A serial number is in the form YYYYMMDDNN where NN is the update number for that day. So today would be 2006111100. This is the forumla:
# sed -i 's/200[0-9]\{7\}/2006111104/g' db.*
This says to replace any text starting with 200 and followed by 7 digits with 2006111104 . I should add this to the sed one liners page: http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
BTW, my high school web page is now on my servers.
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