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

[Jorge Bianquetti < >]

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2013/9/16 Jeppe Nejsum Madsen < " target="_blank"> >

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> 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?

You can use the FileEdit class  in a ruby block:

ruby_block "Update vars" do
  block do
    rc = Chef::Util::FileEdit.new(some_path)
    rc.search_file_replace(...)
    rc.write_file
  end
  action :create
end

/Jeppe