How to programmatically modify configuration files?
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Thu Jul 26 02:06:49 UTC 2007
Arch Willingham writes:
> I have a script that does a bunch of installation stuff. It works well but
> I can't figure out how to modify some of the configuration files
> (/etc/samba/smb.conf for example). Is there any easy command to do this?
> For example, I'd like to change the file so that "workgroup = MYGROUP"
> becomes "workgroup = ÁUBURN"
>
> Any suggestions?
Write a Perl script to do this, or a shell script that runs sed:
sed 's/^workgroup =.*/workgroup = ÁUBURN/'
You have to be careful with whitespace. Also, you have to be sure that
smb.conf is going to take the accented text.
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