> I'd do it very clearly in two lines: > > $ perl -ni -e 'print unless /^# BEGIN project/../^# END project/' > /etc/rc.machine > $ cat rc-addition >>/etc/rc.machine >
Jay Plett also emailed me a similar solution using sed which I'd touch up as: sed -ibak -e '/^# BEGIN project/,/^# END project/d' -e '$r rc-addition' /etc/rc.machine I think both are equally readable. I like Jay's solution to use the "r" command to read the file in at the end. Thanks! Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
