On Thu, Mar 31, 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: >I can do "simply" search and replace with sed. >However, I want to setup httpd.conf from a script >that changes the default "/" which is presently: While this can be done with sed, it's generally a lot easier to do with python or perl, particularly when dealing with multi-line replacement patterns. It was this type of job that led me to perl in the late 1980s as perl was a lot easier to understand than advanced sed features, and there was only one regular expression syntax to remember. Currently I use python for most things, but don't want to start a scripting language wars thread here. There's a very useful script 'replace' in the Kernighan and Pike book "The Unix Programming Environment" which uses sed for in-place replacements as an example of exception handling (MySQL has a similar 'replace' script but with different arguments which tells me that their developers hadn't done much basic *nix study as this book, while old, is still excellent). The best book I've ever read on sed is "Unix Text Processing" by Dougherty and O'Reilly which covers many *nix utilities. ><Directory /> > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None ></Directory> > >and change it to the following: > ><Directory /> > Order Deny,Allow > Deny from all > AllowOverride None ></Directory> > >How do you do that with scripts? Basically substitute everything between >the two Directory tags. > >Thanks, > >Jerry >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 It's just got so that 90 percent of the people in this country don't give a damn. Politics ain't worrying this country one tenth as much as parking space. -- Will Rogers