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Re: Newbie Question regarding commenting out all the lines without hash
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Mark . Burgess |
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Re: Newbie Question regarding commenting out all the lines without hash marks |
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:01:10 +0200 (MET DST) |
On 25 Jun, Durham, Josh wrote:
> I'm very new to cfengine, but I am trying to basically comment every single
> line out in a file, with the following:
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> editfiles:
> { /etc/inetd.conf
> HashCommentLinesMatching "^[^#]"
> }
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> But this doesn't seem to do anything. Running an egrep "^[^#]"
> /etc/inetd.conf seems to work. I'm using the latest cfengine, 2.0.3.
>
> Any ideas how to do this right?
>
> - Josh
Your regexp matches only two characters, you need to write
HashCommentLinesMatching "^[^#].*"
I expect,
Mark
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