[Re: Does a standalone editfiles command tool exist?]

[Hans Deragon]

Hi again.


  Since nobody answered to my challenge, I assume that there is no easier way 
to edit a file using the action/section EditFiles of cfengine, right?  To bad 
its not made into a standalone command line tool.  I believe such a tool would 
be very popular.  If I had the time, I would rip it out.


Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant
Deragon Informatique inc.         Open source:
http://www.deragon.biz            http://swtmvcwrapper.sourceforge.net
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-------- Original Message --------

Pete Ehlke wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:42:41PM -0500, Hans Deragon wrote:
>
> >  One of the best features of cfengine is its editfiles action/section.  
> >  Did anybody every rip this out of cfengine and made a standalone command 
> > line tool just to edit files?  Or is there any other command tool with 
> > simillar functionnality to editfiles that exist out there?
>
> I believe you want this:
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sed2/

Ok, I am not very familiar with sed and awk, but as far as I know, these
programs are line oriented.

How can I write a script that would perform something like the following and
would remain as elegant?

      BeginGroupIfNoLineMatching "# Addition by EMC ended."
        LocateLineMatching ".*. /etc/init.d/functions.*"
        IncrementPointer   "-3"
        InsertLine "# Addition by EMC started."
        InsertLine 'DHCP_HOSTNAME=${dollar}{HOSTNAME}'
        InsertLine "# Addition by EMC ended."
        InsertLine ""
      EndGroup

Off course, this can be done, but I do not know of any scripting tool that
allows one to express the above changes so elegantly.  Anybody can translate
this into sed/awk in about the same number of lines?


Best regards,
Hans Deragon
--
Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant
Deragon Informatique inc.         Open source:
http://www.deragon.biz            http://swtmvcwrapper.sourceforge.net
mailto://hans@deragon.biz         http://autopoweroff.sourceforge.net



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