I have a search and replace task and was hoping to get some advice. I have a large text file of remote access users from Cisco's ACS dumpfile that I need to batch alter 2000 of 3000 users. And example user record (they are not all the same size)
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Name : myuser State : 0 S_flags : 0 Aging policy : group1 Good count : 0 Warning count : 0 Change count : 0 Last change Lo: 1648245808 Last change Hi: 29591352 Last auth Lo : 0 Last auth Hi : 0 Rights : 1 Type : 256 EnableType : 4 Status : 4 Reset : 1 Expiry : 302 103 0 4294963983 0 5 MaxSession : 65535 MaxSess2 : 0 Profile : 1 LogonHrs : 0x0016 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff Alias : 0 Value Flags : 524336 CounterVals_00: 0 0 0 0 CounterRst_00 : 0 0 CounterVals_01: 0 0 0 0 CounterRst_01 : 0 0 ##--- User End I have a simple text file of all the usernames that must be acted on already, and i was hoping to find a scripted method of searching this file to locate my usernames, then change the TYPE and STATUS lines for each respective user to alternate values. My problem is how to do a search that will stop at a username, reach forward in the file to find the next occurance of TYPE and then STATUS, make the replacements, and then continue searching the file for the rest of the usernames. Doing a bulk replace of all status and type, that's easy with "sed', and if i could get Grep to go through a file, lock on a name match, and start sed off from that point I might be ok, but I don't see how that could be done. So I am betting Perl is my best and perhaps only option to do this with minimal developement time. Any text manipulators out there see a way to do this from what I have described? Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
