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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to edit file sections that cross multiple lines? Post 302386625 by Narnie on Wednesday 13th of January 2010 07:44:52 PM
Old 01-13-2010
Ah, OK. Now I feel dumb, hehe.

OK, from the code posted above, say I wanted to change it to this:

Code:
<Menu>
    <Name>Accessibility</Name>
    <Directory>Accessibility.directory</Directory>
    <Include>
      <And>
        <Category>Accessibility</Category>
          <Include>
            <Filename>dasher.desktop</Filename>
          </Include>
        <Not><Category>Settings</Category></Not>
      </And>
    </Include>
  </Menu>

I will also need to be doing the reverse. Taking this config in this reply, and converting it into the code first posted.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by anchal_khare
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
       dh_installmenu [debhelperoptions] [-n]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_installmenu is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian menu package into package build
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       It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to interface with the Debian menu package. These commands are
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FILES
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SEE ALSO
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