[NTLUG:Discuss] sed question

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Fred,
 Thank you for the reply.  Answer to 1-a is no, and the answer to 1-b is
only the characteristics I mentioned before.  This must be a robust
solution, so I have to be able to handle any valid ntp.conf file.  The
user is not likely to touch the file, but they might.
  I had not thought about preserving a history.  I'll have to consider
that, but my first thought is that it would not be useful enough for the
effort.  I'll give that more thought, though.
Thanks,
Ralph


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 07:15, fredjame wrote:
> >
> Just a couple of quickies off the top of my head ...
> (1) If the two lines in question are:
> (1-a) always in the same place, you could use the line numbers as the 
> addresses instead of the pattern
> (1-b) not always in the same place, is there anything else in the line 
> that is constant in addition to "server"?
> That is, can you make a unique identification of each line?  If you can, 
> you could do a search/replace.
> (2) Would you want to keep of history of the lines replaced/changed?