Re: Multiple line matching and replace in editfiles

[James Treleaven]

I found myself also wanting to "edit" multiple lines today with 
'editfiles'.  In my case, it is because radiusd.conf has a 'paragraph 
style' layout, and I need to make sure that 'sql' is listed in the 
following stanza:

authorize {
  preprocess
  sql
  files
}

Unfortunately, it looks to me like editfiles is line based and it cannot 
do this for me.  I think I have no choice but to use an external perl 
script. I really wish that shellcommands took a 
'if-this-named-file-has-changed-run-this-shellcommand' option, because 
the whole set-a-class-to-kick-off-a-shellcommand idiom is pretty kludgey 
in my eyes.

cheers,
James