Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: RE: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: weird error on variable and report not working Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23210,23492#msg-23492
Hi Jerome, Just to complete the thought: one problem with using a plain insert_lines is that it would not handle properly the case in which the "vi" alias is already defined, but with some other value. In this case you want to replace the existing line with the correct definition, or insert it if there is no such line already. For cases like this, I wrote a replace_or_add bundle that you can find here: https://github.com/zzamboni/cfengine-copbl/blob/master/cfengine_stdlib.cf#L348 And you would use it like this: files: "$(g.bashrc_loc)" edit_line => replace_or_add("alias\s+vi\s*=.*", "$(g.alias_vi)"), classes => if_repaired("alias_inserted"); This has the effect of replacing any previous definition of "alias vi" (as indicated by the regular expression in the first parameter) with the correct value as given in the second parameter. Best regards, _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
