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Re: Deleting lines in a file from configuration files with editfiles


From: Mark Burgess
Subject: Re: Deleting lines in a file from configuration files with editfiles
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:55:05 +0100

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 13:28 +0100, Berthold Cogel wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm looking for a method to delete lines that I can not describe with a 
> string or a regex in a cfengine script.
> 
> For example:
> 
> I want to edit root's authorized_keys file. I want to distribute ssh 
> public keys with cfengine. It is not a problem to collect the keys and 
> append them to authorized_keys. But I would also like to revoke keys by 
> distributing them in a single file.
> 
> I need something like 'DeleteLinesMatchingFromFile', 

Why not use this then? :-)

> 'DeleteLinesContainingFileItems' or 'Delete "ThisLine".
> 
> Of course I can rebuild the file from scratch with cfengine. But there 
> are situations where I don't want to do this.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Berthold
> 
> 
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