On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:06:30AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 03 Nov 2020 at 08:03:24 (-0600), Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Another (off-list) reply suggested using a script to edit nginx.conf > > rather than doing it by hand, which looks like the best solution for my > > specific case. > > I obviously haven't seen that suggestion, but why write a script > yourself when software exists to do that already.
Because my deployment script already exists and does several things other than editing nginx.conf, and I prefer being able to deploy with one command instead of two. > Patch, of course, has the same pedigree as Perl, both being creations > of Larry Wall. I'm passigly familiar with `patch`, but wasn't aware that Larry was the original author. Thanks for that tidbit! -- Dave Sherohman