Thanks for all the help!! Looks like sed is the ticket. Guess I need to get a good sed book!! V/R Richard J. Danda II SFC, USA BLCSE Network Manager/IASO Maneuver Support Battle Lab Fort Leonard Wood, MO richard.danda@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of inode0 Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:25 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Scripting /etc/fstab changes On 12/5/06, Gaddis, Jeremy L. <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/5/06, David Tonhofer <d.tonhofer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Try this perl script, it's probably unelegant as hell but I found it > > in my "hacks" directory. > > No guarantees!!! Try it first manually, then set reallyWrite to 1 to > > replace your fstab. > > Why a huge script when you can easily do it with a sed one-liner? > > sed -i -e 's/^hostA/hostB/g' /etc/fstab Or to rewrite /etc/fstab in place with perl at least something like perl -p -i -e s/hostA/hostB/ /etc/fstab John -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
