05-28-2003
Editing a file using a script
Hi
I have about 10 config files belonging to software that runs on SCO UNIX. These files contain, amongst many other things, a path which points to the software locations. We normally have to change them manually every time the software is coppied to a new location and when you gotta do a few times a day, it becomes quite laboreous.
I would like to know how to change all these paths using a single script. I'm hoping to have the user enter the 2 different paths once and let the script find the paths in these files (line numbers for the paths vary from file to file) and over write them with the new ones.
It is worth noting that the only alterations that can be made to the config files are the path names. Anything else will cause the software that reads them, to disappear up its own backside.
I hope I'm being clear and I look forward to some help
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NAME
httest - test HTTP driven application
SYNOPSIS
httest [OPTIONS] scripts
DESCRIPTION
httest is a script based tool for testing and benchmarking web applications, web servers, proxy servers and web browsers. httest can emu-
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OPTIONS
-V --version
Print version number and exit
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Display usage information (this message)
-n --suppress
do no print start and OK|FAILED
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silent mode
-e --error
log level error
-w --warn
log level warn
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log level debug for script debugging
-p --debug-system
log level debug-system to log more details
-L --list-commands
List all available script commands
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Print help for specific command
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Print test duration
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httest script.htt
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SIMPLE SCRIPT
Get a page and do expect return code 200 OK.
CLIENT
_REQ www.google.ch 80
__GET /search?q=apache HTTP/1.1
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_WAIT
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CUT AND PAST SCRIPT
Cut and past from a HTTP stream, i.e we cut the apache host to access it in the second request.
CLIENT
_REQ www.google.ch 80
__GET /search?q=apache HTTP/1.1
__Host: www.google.ch
__
_MATCH body '<a href="http://([^/]*)/" class=l>Welcome! - The <em>Apache</em> HTTP Server Project' APACHE_HOST
_WAIT
_REQ $APACHE_HOST 80
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CLIENT SERVER SCRIPT
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ies. Or a webapplication which communicat itself with third party servers i.e. mail server.
This is a very basic selfcontained test you can run on any maschine.
CLIENT
_REQ localhost 8080
__GET /foo HTTP/1.1
__Host: localhost
__
_WAIT
END
SERVER 8080
_RES
_EXPECT "/foo"
_WAIT
__HTTP/1.1 200 OK
__Content-Length: AUTO
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__Hello World
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SSL SCRIPT
Of course SSL do also work with httest, just put "SSL:" before port.
CLIENT
_REQ localhost SSL:8080
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__Host: localhost
__
_WAIT
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