[augeas-devel] Calling augtool from a script

[Raphaël Pinson]

Hello,


You can find some examples of shell scripts using augtool (and augparse) in
https://github.com/raphink/augeas-sandbox.


Regards,

Raphaël


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> According to the FAQ entry at http://augeas.net/faq.html, the augtool
> command can be used to manipulate the tree from a script, but there doesn't
> seem to be a link to any documentation that would describe how to do this
> with working examples.
>
> The closest I've found is the url
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9118123/using-sed-to-change-etc-fstabhowever trying to follow it's example I get augtool running silently with
> no error, but not doing anything to the file /etc/fstab:
>
> augtool set '/files/etc/fstab/[file=/home/monica/foo]/file'
> /home/monica/foo
> augtool set '/files/etc/fstab/[file=/home/monica/foo]/spec'
> /dev/vg001/home-monica-foo
> augtool save
>
> Does anyone have a working example of augtool being run from a script?
>
> Does anyone know how to get some kind of diagnostics or debugging out of
> augtool, to confirm that it is actually doing anything?
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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