I would used sed. You will have to learn a little bit about regular
expressions, but they are such a powerful tool that it is worth investing a
some time.
Basically:
cat oldscriptname| sed s/jabberd/newservername/g > newscriptname
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Warren Melnick
Director of Research and Development
Astata Corporation
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Subject: Best tool 4 script string replacement
I am trying to write a script to modify a configuration script for
the jabber server. I am new to shell scripting and was wondering how
people would approach the following situations.
1. The host name is configured by the following xml tags
<host><jabberd:cmdline flag="h">localhost</jabberd:cmdline></host>
<update><jabberd:cmdline flag="h">localhost</jabberd:cmdline></update>
What is the best tool for replacing localhost or whatever is between
the two tags with the contents of the variable $server_name.
2. Similar to the above the server modules are configured using tags
similar to the following:
<mod_version>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_version>
I need to be able to comment this out using HTML style comments or
remove the comments depending on what the user requests.
I have another issue that will need addressed later, but for now I am
looking for advice on tools, useage of the tools and reading material
to assist me in better understanding how to accomplish this.
Thanks,
Chad
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