Re: Editfiles, DeleteCommands, POSIX Syntax, etc

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Brian E. Seppanen <seppy@chartermi.net> (2003-04-09 08:39:29 BST):
> Hello:
> 
> I'm desperate to use editfiles for some ACL maintanence, and to do so I
> need to insure that I can clear a couple of lines with the DeleteCommands,
> unfortunately I cannot, for the life of me, define a regex or pattern that
> will match, and I'm frankly baffled.  I need to match
> 
>       only_from       += 192.168.0.0/24
> 
> In all cases I've been careful to escape the + and the .'s   I've had luck 
> with a BeginGroupIfNoMatch, so I'm pretty sure, I haven't missed escaping 
> something.

Cfengine uses regular expressions in a 'tied' manner i.e. the whole
line must match the regular expression. So, try this:

DeleteLinesMatching '^only_from +\+= 129\.168\.0\.0/24$'

The ^ and $ are optional but I like them there to remind me what's
going on.

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