[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: edit a file using chef

[Lamont Granquist < >]

I think its a great idea.

Its only bad for you if you overuse it.

Used sparingly it can get some jobs done where the constraints make 
updating the whole file annoying.

On 6/14/12 2:02 PM, Adam Jacob wrote:
> I wonder if it's time to finally turn that into a resource, even
> though I think there is near universal agreement it's not a great
> idea?
>
> Adam
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:54 AM, AJ 
> Christensen<
>  >
>   wrote:
> > https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/util/file_edit.rb
> >
> > On 14 June 2012 23:25, Bryan 
> > Berry<
> >  >
> >   wrote:
> > > minimin, u can use the template resource for this purpose
> > >
> > > questions like this are probably better suited to the main chef mailing list
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:11 
> > > PM,<
> > >  >
> > >   wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I saw a file resource which can be used to create and delete a file,but i
> > > > want
> > > > to edit a file with values provided by the user.
> > > > Does chef provides such facility??