[Gnumed-devel] Sed is you friend - managing the passwords for the boostrap process

[Sebastian Hilbert]

For MS Windows we have opted to preseed a set of passwords so users don't have 
to type all those passwords. That however involves changing a bunch of config 
files in the bootstrap directory. Doing that manually for every release was 
just out of the question. Sed comes to the rescue.

    echo off

    SET SED=C:\bin\sed.exe
    SET VER=12.2
    SET WORKINGDIR=C:\workplace\gnumed-server.%VER%\server\bootstrap
    SET GMDBOPWD=gm-dbpass
    SET PGPWD=postgrespassword

    cd %WORKINGDIR%
    echo # patching files in %WORKINGDIR%
    for %%f in (*.conf) do %SED% -i "s/password = /password = %GMDBOPWD%/g" 
%%f
    for %%f in (*.conf) do %SED% -i "s/#password =/password = %PGPWD%/g" %%f
    echo # clean up
    del sed*

That is magic. No more messing around and screwing up.