On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 08:44 +0200, Raphaël Pinson wrote: > Hi there, > > > I demoed augeas to a former colleague yesterday, and he had an > interesting comment. He said it would seem very useful if it was > possible to have a concrete view in a match. For example, I want to > know all the crontab entries that are run by root, so I would use > > match "/files/etc//entry[user = 'root']" > > > but then I get the tree that matches. He thinks it would be great if > there was a match to actually get the concrete data (i.e. the crontab > lines in this case) instead.
Yeah, I think that would be an interesting addition, together with some indication of where in the original file the new text will appear - it would be quite useful for GUI applications. Implementationwise, it would require somework in put.c to suppress output unless we're in the part of the tree that was requested. David _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
