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

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:30:57PM +0100, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> 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.

Very nice. sed on Windows. Bliss !

Karsten
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