Re: How to use regex in editfiles?

[Wil Cooley]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 00:47 -0500, Frank Smith wrote:

> Try this instead:
> 
> AppendIfNoLineMatching "cfengine[[:blank:]]5308/tcp.*"
> 
> which should also match lines with trailing spaces and/or comments.

What I don't understand is why the .* are necessary--why does the regex
have to match the whole line instead of a substring?  They aren't for
other regex implementations.  I guess I could see a safety issue with
it...

Wil
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Wil Cooley                                 wcooley@nakedape.cc
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