Change Text-File through bash script

arkus · 12-16-2004, 04:39 AM

I have a textbased konfiguration file and i want to change some parameters like

displayname="XLS111 RedHat Cluster 1"

in line 20

to

displayname="somethingelse"

with a bash-script.

I've never scripted bash before, but i shouldn't be too difficult ?

/bin/bash · 12-16-2004, 06:28 AM

sed 's/displayname=".*"/displayname="somethingelse"/' myconfigfile >myconfigfile.tmp
mv myconfigfile.tmp myconfigfile

cormander · 12-17-2004, 08:48 PM

If you're a one-liner moron like me, consider this:

Code:

 perl -pi -e 's/displayname=".*"/displayname="somethingelse"/' myconfigfile

-Corey