Re: editfiles question

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Sven Mueller wrote:
>Hi.
>
>From the documentation, I am not certain how to achieve the following 
>task.
>Let's say I want to edit /etc/passwd (actually I am editing a similarly 
>formated, but different file), and I want the following to be achieved:
>
>- I want the file to be created if it doesn't exist (AutoCreate takes
>  care of this)
>- I want a line "root:..1234567890123:0:0::/bin/bash" be added to the
>  file if it doesn't exist, overwriting any root:.* lines that might
>  exist.

http://shipyard.com.au/shipyard/articles/sysadmin/cfengine-configfiles.py

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