#/bin/sh for CTL in `cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep -v "\#" | xargs` do CODE=`/sbin/sysctl $CTL` RIGHT=`echo $CODE | awk -F ": " '{ print $2 }'` OLD=`echo $RIGHT | awk -F "->" '{ print $1 }' | xargs` NEW=`echo $RIGHT | awk -F "->" '{ print $2 }' | xargs` if [ "$OLD" != "$NEW" ]; then echo $CODE fi done