Hi, Sorry for my sloppy explanation indeed :-)
I have 1 big input file containing lines starting with a host name. On every host I want to create a separate file from this input file, but it only contains the lines that need to be present on that host. somthing like grep $hostname inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt Regards, Tom --- On Fri, 12/11/09, Brendan Strejcek <strej...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Brendan Strejcek <strej...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: question on file creation (V2) > To: "Tom Van de Velde" <tom_vandeve...@yahoo.com> > Cc: help-cfengine@cfengine.org > Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 4:55 AM > Can you try to restate the problem? I > don't see exactly what you are > getting at. If you want to insert the hostname into a file, > editfiles > should be able to do that. > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Tom Van de Velde > <tom_vandeve...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm facing a problem where i need to construct a file > with content. (where is the problem here :-) ) > > Well the content is based on the hostname ... > > > > So I have a input.txt with : > > server1 command 1 option 1 > > server1 command 2 option 4 > > server1 command 3 option 4 > > server2 command 1 option 4 > > server2 command 5 option 4 > > > > in bash a simple grep should do the trick ... but how > can cfengine handle this. > > > > One extra thing to know... it is cfengine version 2, > that is still used.... > > > > Regards, > > Tom > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Help-cfengine mailing list > > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine