I've learned that "body replace_with comment" is called by
comment_lines_matching. Thank you, sauer.
Aleksey
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
<atsaloli.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. What's the use of "body replace_with comment", please? It's in
> the standard library.
>
> I can get it to run but I don't see how or why anybody would want to use it.
>
> How does it relate to comment_lines_matching and comment_lines_containing?
>
> I think the COPBL could be greatly improved by documenting in each
> bundle or body how and why it would be used -- like is done right now
> with "bundle agent cronjob".
>
> Yours truly,
> Aleksey
>
>
> [root@student93 verticalsysadmin_training_examples]# echo 'I am taking
> my dog for a walk' > /tmp/file.txt
> [root@student93 verticalsysadmin_training_examples]# cf-agent -f
> ./MISC_COPBL_replace_with_comment.cf -b example -KI
> >> Using command line specified bundlesequence
> -> Promised replacement "# dog" for pattern "^.*(dog).*$" is not
> properly convergent while editing /tmp/file.txt
> Because the regular expression "^.*(dog).*$" still matches the
> end-state replacement string "# dog"
> Promise (version not specified) belongs to bundle 'comment_out_dogs'
> in file './MISC_COPBL_replace_with_comment.cf' near line 17
> -> Edited file /tmp/file.txt
> [root@student93 verticalsysadmin_training_examples]# cat /tmp/file.txt
> # dog
> [root@student93 verticalsysadmin_training_examples]#
>
> [root@student93 verticalsysadmin_training_examples]# cat
> MISC_COPBL_replace_with_comment.cf
> bundle agent example {
>
> files:
>
> "/tmp/file.txt"
>
> edit_line => comment_out_dogs;
>
> }
>
> bundle edit_line comment_out_dogs {
>
> replace_patterns:
>
> "^.*(dog).*$"
>
> replace_with => comment("#");
>
>
> }
>
> body replace_with comment(c)
> {
> replace_value => "$(c) $(match.1)";
> occurrences => "all";
> }
> [root@student93 verticalsysadmin_training_examples]#
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