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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help with scripting mass file edits.. Post 302132019 by LinuxRacr on Tuesday 14th of August 2007 08:31:00 PM

08-14-2007

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Someone gave me this perl solution:

Code:

perl -pi.old -e 's/(localhost)(.*)/$1\n$2\nnew\nlines\nhere/' file1 file2 file3

What this example does is search for the string 'localhost', moves the existing text on the line after the string down a line, and inserts the new lines. It does this for 3 files( file1, file2, and file3). I tested this out like so:

Code:

perl -pi.old -e 's/(#Section 2)(.*)/$1\n$2\It Worked!!!/' file1

This was the result I found when I looked at file1:

Before:

#Section 1
This is some stuff I am typing in this file for space.

#Section 2

After (I did it several times):

#Section 1
This is some stuff I am typing in this file for space.

#Section 2
It Worked!!!
It Worked!!!
It Worked!!!
It Worked!!!
It Worked!!!

The problem comes when I try to enter this:

Cmnd_Alias EPROV_ADMIN_CMDS = /usr/sbin/groupadd, /usr/sbin/groupdel, /usr/sbin/groupmod, \
/usr/bin/last, /usr/bin/listusers, /usr/sbin/logins, \
/usr/sbin/usermod, /usr/sbin/useradd, /usr/sbin/userdel, \
/usr/bin/passwd, /usr/bin/ypmatch, /usr/bin/yppasswd, \
/usr/sbin/ypcat, /usr/bin/login

What would be the best way to enter this? In other words, I need to be able to enter absolute paths to files.

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