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Re: best way to express an 'editfiles' idiom?
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Daniel Pittman |
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Re: best way to express an 'editfiles' idiom? |
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Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:34:00 +1000 |
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> When I manage configuration files with cfengine, I frequently find
> myself wanting to express the following action with 'editfiles':
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> Make every line matching "^Value" equal to "Value foo"
[...]
> The best way I have found to express this, so far, has been:
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> CommentLinesMatching "^UsePrivilegeSeparation.*no"
> AppendIfNoLineMatching "^UsePrivilegeSeparation" "UsePrivilegeSeparation
> yes"
Ahem. That should have been:
AppendIfNoSuchLine "UsePrivilegeSeparation yes"
Serves me right not to check that I had the latest version of the file
before posting.
Daniel
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