Re: loops in editfiles

[Tim Nelson]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Alex Lovell-Troy wrote:

> In working with some files that are modified by other processes than 
> cfengine, I've had to jump through some hoops to do the same 
> AppendToLineIfNotContains on n lines in the file.  Unless I've missed 
> something in the documentation, there is no way to select a subset of lines 
> from a file and do some kind of ForEachLineinSelection kind of thing.
>
> Is that the kind of thing that would be useful to others in cfengine3?

	In my opinion, editfiles is the thing in need of the most 
revision.  Some others agree.  The suggestions for TextSQL (see links 
below) would probably enable you to do that kind of thing.

http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Editfiles
http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/TextSQL

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