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December 26, 2022 05:41
lineinfile, similar to the Ansible action, in Perl
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#!/usr/bin/env -S perl -CSD | |
# Usage: lineinfile <regexp> <new_value> <file1> <file2> <file3> ... | |
use strict; | |
use warnings; | |
use utf8; | |
if (@ARGV < 3) { | |
die "Usage: $0 <regexp> <new_value> <file1> <file2> <file3> ..." | |
} | |
my $regexp = shift; | |
my $new_value = shift; | |
for my $file (@ARGV) { | |
open my $tmp, '>', "$file.tmp" or die "Can't open $file.tmp: $!"; | |
if ((open my $fh, '<', $file)) { | |
my $found = 0; | |
for my $line (<$fh>) { | |
chomp $line; | |
if ($line =~ /$regexp/) { | |
$line = $new_value; | |
$found = 1; | |
} | |
print $tmp "$line\n"; | |
} | |
close $fh; | |
if (!$found) { | |
print $tmp "$new_value\n"; | |
} | |
} else { | |
print $tmp "$new_value\n"; | |
} | |
close $tmp; | |
rename "$file.tmp", $file or die "Can't rename $file.tmp to $file: $!"; | |
} |
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