append to a line

[Stuart Sears]

Tom Brown wrote:
> 
>>>
>>>
>>> I need to append some options to the kernel line in grub.conf and i
>>> wonder can anyone tell me the tool i can use to stick 'some stuff' on
>>> the end of a line?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>> vi is my favorite tool for this. (#vi /boot/grub/grub.conf)
>>
> 
> ah yes - sorry should have said this needs to be scriptable!

examples?
how many machines do you want to do this to?
/me prefers sed for this, but there are any number of options

sed -i.backup 's,kernel.*$,& arg1 arg2 arg3,' /boot/grub/grub.conf


Stuart