[chef] Most efficient way to handle text in config files (without a template)

["Van Fossan,Randy" < >]

Anyone know the best way (most efficient) to handle text entries in files without using Templates?   Ensuring multiple entries exist in a file from a cookbook (array) attribute.   If they are overwritten, they would be re-added.

 

I know how to do this with perl and bash, but it would be a little more resource intensive than I would like.

 

The configuration file in question is changing a few times a week under control of a process that I cannot modify, but I still need to ensure that certain information is in the resultant configuration file.

 

Thanks to everyone who has been helping this newbie along..

  Randy