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Re: best way to express an 'editfiles' idiom?
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Adrian Phillips |
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Re: best way to express an 'editfiles' idiom? |
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Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:22:49 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
Daniel> When I manage configuration files with cfengine, I
Daniel> frequently find myself wanting to express the following
Daniel> action with 'editfiles':
Daniel> Make every line matching "^Value" equal to "Value foo"
Well, I haven't tried this but for some cases where foo is small, how
about :-
ReplaceAll "^Value [^f][^o][^o]" With "Value foo"
does that work ?
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
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