Re: non-convergent file edit?

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, rader@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu wrote:
> > From: Jamie Wilkinson
> > editfiles:
> > 
> >    { /etc/motd
> >        LocateLineMatching "year is [[:digit:]]{4}"
> >        ReplaceLineWith "year is $(year)
> >    }
> > 
> > If your script is convergent it will only happen once anyway.
>
>Sorry, doesn't work for me.  In perl terms, I want...
>
> s/year is \d{4}/year is $year/
>
>or more verbosely...

Let me put it this way:  the above editfiles construct is close to what
you're after, working out the details of the regex is up to you.

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