The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Shane Stixrud]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, sean wrote:

> The original post by Shane mentioned the limitations of sed when trying to
> modify config files.  My notion was of something slightly smarter than
> sed that would have no idea of valid key names or values.  Just something,
> that could parse a config file and spit out a slightly modified version.

My post was not targeting the limitations of SED per say rather the 
limitions any tool will have modifying a plain text file that has no 
predefined structure.  The only improvement I can think of that would make 
sed easier to use is the ability to use "string of chars" for expressions 
instead of terminiating each metacharecter with a \

Shane