On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:13:50 -0000 (UTC), Jim Henderson wrote: > With the number of groups you're dealing with having to remove, I would > recommend using some tool that accepts xpath search queries and that can > delete entries based on that. 'jq' may be able to do this as well from > a command-line if you prefer that.
Don't know what I was thinking here; jq is for JSON formats, not XML. xmllint from xmllib2 would be the XML alternative. For that use case, I would invert the "starts-with" query, so instead of: /group-preferences/group[starts-with(@name,'novell')] I would use: /group-preferences/group[not(starts-with(@name,'novell'))] That way the output generated removes the undesired group elements. Search and replace is something I'd still do with just a text editor as the easiest option, though. -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
