and now for fun with seq!

[sbc_compliant]

So, I had a customer today that had mistakenly added a bunch of hosts en masse to a config file via a GUI tool. The tool, however, does not allow for mass removal. So, the ticket came to me.

I removed the hosts from the config file using the magic of seq!

• for i in `seq -w 036 1 200`; do command -rm "remove per [ticket_number]" host-complex$i.system.domain.tld; done

That -w flag is really handy for keeping the padding zeros in place, especially since the customer had started at such a non-round number.