The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management
Shane Stixrud
shane at geeklords.org
Tue Mar 28 21:27:30 UTC 2006
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, sean wrote:
> The original post by Shane mentioned the limitations of sed when trying to
> modify config files. My notion was of something slightly smarter than
> sed that would have no idea of valid key names or values. Just something,
> that could parse a config file and spit out a slightly modified version.
My post was not targeting the limitations of SED per say rather the
limitions any tool will have modifying a plain text file that has no
predefined structure. The only improvement I can think of that would make
sed easier to use is the ability to use "string of chars" for expressions
instead of terminiating each metacharecter with a \
Shane
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