[geeks] regex question, I suppose...

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Tim Harrison wrote:

> Let's say I have a listing of a few thousand MAC addresses in the Cisco
> style format ( xxxx.xxxx.xxxx ) and I want to change those into the
> standard format ( xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx ).  What would one use?

Depends on if you want to use sed, awk, or perl... You could easily do it
w/awk, using . as a seperator.

If you want, I could probably whip up a perl script for ya pretty quick.
Read the line, chop it into 3 elements, split the elements in 1/2, output
a string of all them catted back together.

-pete