Re: [lopsa-tech] ansible regex help

2015-11-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 02:18:40AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > From: Brandon Allbery [mailto:allber...@gmail.com] > > > > I'm thinking the problem is that it is allowing any character to match [^#] > > --- > > including newline, which you likely do not expect. Try [^#\n] instead.

Re: [lopsa-tech] ansible regex help

2015-11-07 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 7 nov. 2015 16:37 schreef "Dan Ritter" : > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 02:18:40AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > > From: Brandon Allbery [mailto:allber...@gmail.com] > > > > > > I'm thinking the problem is that it is allowing any character to match [^#] --- > > > including newline, w

Re: [lopsa-tech] ansible regex help

2015-11-07 Thread Yves Dorfsman
On 2015-11-07 08:31, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Let me suggest that editing files in place is a really finicky > operation, and it would be better to do something like: Ansible modules typically have an option to make backups of the file they modify. > Even better is to not be in this situation in

Re: [lopsa-tech] ansible regex help

2015-11-07 Thread Josh Smift
DR> Even better is to not be in this situation in the first place, by DR> deploying all the config via generation from version-controlled DR> management systems. YD> You typically modify files with ansible when say you install a new YD> package and you want to change just a few lines from the orig

Re: [lopsa-tech] ansible regex help

2015-11-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Josh Smift wrote: > Cfengine and probably Puppet too (I've forgotten > whether Puppet, at the time I was using it, could edit files like this). > I think it eventually did sprout that capability although they strongly resisted it for a long time. -- brandon s al

Re: [lopsa-tech] ansible regex help

2015-11-07 Thread Craig Miskell
On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 18:29:37 -0500 Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Josh Smift wrote: > > > Cfengine and probably Puppet too (I've forgotten > > whether Puppet, at the time I was using it, could edit files like this). > > > > I think it eventually did sprout that capabil

Re: [lopsa-tech] ansible regex help

2015-11-07 Thread Steve VanDevender
Brandon Allbery writes: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Josh Smift wrote: > > Cfengine and probably Puppet too (I've forgotten > whether Puppet, at the time I was using it, could edit files like this). > > I think it eventually did sprout that capability although they strongly >