{"account":{"acct":"brozek","avatar":"https://cdn.fosstodon.org/accounts/avatars/108/219/415/927/856/966/original/bae9f46f23936e79.jpg","display_name":"Brandon Rozek","header":"https://fosstodon.org/headers/original/missing.png","hide_collections":false,"id":"108219415927856966","indexable":false,"uri":"https://fosstodon.org/users/brozek","url":"https://fosstodon.org/@brozek","username":"brozek"},"application":null,"card":{"author_name":"","author_url":"","authors":[{"account":null,"name":"","url":""}],"blurhash":null,"description":"Two of my favorite functions in Ansible are lineinfile and blockinfile. They are extraordinarily useful when one needs to ensure that a line or a block is either replaced or put in a config file.\nlineinfile # For example, let's say one wants to enable IP forwarding in the sysctl, one can write the following task in Ansible:\n- name: Enable IP forwarding lineinfile: dest: /etc/sysctl.conf regexp: \"net.ipv4.ip_forward\" line: \"net.ipv4.ip_forward=1\" state: present What exactly this task does is:","embed_url":"","height":0,"html":"","image":null,"image_description":"","language":"en","provider_name":"","provider_url":"","published_at":null,"title":"Poor man's Ansible: lineinfile and blockinfile in bash","type":"link","url":"https://kkovacs.eu/ansible-lineinfile-blockinfile-in-bash/","width":0},"content":"

Kristof Kovacs wrote a script that emulates lineinfile from Ansible.

Now I don't need to open up a whole text editor to edit one line in a configuration file.

https://kkovacs.eu/ansible-lineinfile-blockinfile-in-bash/

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