Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Removing lines from a file

John Kennedy
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:23:22 -0000

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 13:02, jcbollinger
<John.Bollinger@stjude.org>wrote:

>
> > - NOTE: I am adding and removing the #includedir line for testing...
> >
> > What needs to be changed to get this to work?
>
>
> Have you considered using sed instead of perl?  It''s
lighter-weight
> and very good at this sort of thing.
>
> Personally, however, I would be looking at using a File resource to
> manage the *whole file* instead of filtering out a few lines.
>
>
> John
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John

I was hoping to use the File resource to deal with the whole file but the
man in charge says no...My goal was for /etc/sudoers to contain the basics
plus the includedir directive then all else would be managed from
/etc/sudoers.d but that won''t be happening.

I have seen some sed options but this one does seem to work on anything not
starting with a ''#'' so we are going with it...Plus a single
define for both
adding and removing lines is not a bad thing.