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
