Actually, my procedure is usually to run the sed and let the output come to
the terminal to verify what it thinks it¹s going to do, then run it again,
redirecting the output to ³someimportantconfigurationfile.new² (That¹s way
too long... How aobut ³sicf.new² for short). Then I look at the new file to
be sure everything still looks like I want it, and then I rename ³sicf² to
³scif.old², and ³scif.new² to ³scif².
I¹m generally not doing these from a script, as I¹m usually trying to change
something I hadn¹t thought of when I was setting up things and scripting
them out. I¹m not fond of ed and ex from the 3270 console, but they¹d
probably work just as well as sed. But then I¹d be way too tempted to just
ed the file and be done with it. (I know me; I¹d do it.)
There¹s interactive, there¹s batch and scripts, and then there¹s 3270, which
is ³not quite interactive².
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> From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> When sedding, I recommend first
> cp /etc/someimportantconfigurationfile \
> /etc/someimportantconfigurationfile.bak
>
> and then
> sed </etc/someimportantconfigurationfile \
>> /etc/someimportantconfigurationfile.bak \
> etc
>
> If at first you don't succeed, you can try again without recovering what
> you did wrong. It's also good documentation, for when you do the virtual
> paperwork later;-)
>
>
> Mostly, I do this in a script, and the script first tests for the
> existance of the backup, creates it if there isn't one. Then, it's just
> a matter of hacking and running until the script works.
>
> Interactively, I'm more likely to use ed or ex, and we're back where we
> started;-)
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
> -- spambait
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