wine users - Jul 2009 - Automate wine configuration (drives and registry)

One of my apps requires a clean .wine directory after each (wine) version
upgrade and I'm starting to get fed up of making all of the set-up required
- specifically:

- creating a DVD drive in winecfg
- making small changes to a number of registry values (simple but tedious)

Both seem ideal things to be solved by a small script, but I have no idea where
to start. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Stuart

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 01:38 -0500, phual wrote:
> One of my apps requires a clean .wine directory after each (wine) version
upgrade and I'm starting to get fed up of making all of the set-up required
- specifically:
> 
> - creating a DVD drive in winecfg
>
Should be straight forward once you understand shell scripting. Consider
getting one of the Nutshell books (Unix in a nutshell / Linux in a
nutshell).
> - making small changes to a number of registry values (simple but tedious)
> 
Probably a job for sed or gawk - the registries are text files, so a
scriptable text editor (sed) or a general purpose text manipulator
(gawk) can do it. Probably the best way of seeing exactly what to do is
to use diff to compare a fresh set of registries with ones you've
modified and then use it to check that your script is actually doing
what is needed.

There's an O'Reilly book, "sed & awk", that may be useful.
> Both seem ideal things to be solved by a small script, but I have no idea
where to start. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
Of course, rather than using bash plus sed or awk to do the job, you
could do it entirely in Perl...
 

Martin

That got me where I wanted to be. Thanks

Stuart

May i ask what is this application that needs new Wineprefix after each Wine
update? Sounds weird to me.