Re: editfiles question

[Sven Mueller]

Ed Brown [u] wrote on 01/09/2004 16:44:

> Here's another approach:
>
> editfiles:
>    { /etc/whatever
>           BeginGroupIfNoLineMatching "root:$1raboof:4875::::::"
>                  LocateLineMatching "^root:.*"
>                  ReplaceLineWith "root:$1raboof:4875::::::"
>           EndGroup
>    }

Wouldn't that approach replace some other line if no line matching 
"^root:.*" was found while no line matching "root:$1raboof:4875::::::" 
existed before?
Hmm, no, according to the documentation, if LocateLineMatching doesn't 
find a match, it aborts any further editing. So your approach will only 
replace existing lines, but if none matching "root:.*" is found, it 
won't do anything.

cu,
sven