Re: Three-Line service comments

[Mark . Burgess]

On  2 Aug, Adrian Phillips wrote:
>>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Auckland <Tim.Auckland@procket.com> writes:
> 
> [Note, cfengine newbie]
> 
>     Tim> A common format for labeling services in, eg, inetd.conf is
>     Tim> to add a comment group just before the service.
> 
>     Tim> For example:
> 
>     Tim> # # GNATS # support stream tcp nowait gnats
>     Tim> /usr/libexec/gnats/gnatsd gnatsd

> One possibly way to solve this in cfengine would be a way to specify
> the newline as one can with perl, then any regexps could be made to
> work on several lines at a time, e.g. :-
> 
>     NewLine 0777
>     ReplaceAll "(#.*\n)*support stream.*\n" With ""
> 
> (Perhaps this works already ?)
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Adrian Phillips
> 



See:

http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Tutorial.html#Variable%20substitution

you can use $(n) as a newline or $(cr) for carriage return. That way you
could just search and replace the commented line for a four line stanza.

cheers,
Mark

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