[chef-dev] Re: Any equivalent of "puppet augeas" in Chef?

[Alex Stahl < >]

I wrote an LWRP when I had a similar challenge.  Its underlying lib had a few 
classes that modeled the config, had interfaces for changes, and handled the 
file read/write stuff.  Fairly trivial, really.



On Sep 15, 2013, at 23:11, 
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 wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I need to do in-place file editing of config files using Chef. For now, i 
> could
> see that we can append data to the config files using the "bash" resource. 
> But,
> i need to change specific variables in config files using Chef.
> 
> I could see that there's a handy tool called augeas in puppet that clearly
> performs the above requirement. But, i couldn't come up with anything in 
> Chef.
> 
> So, is there any way this could be done in Chef?
> 
> Thanks in advance.