Programming
Insert a line in the middle of an existing configuration file
Playing with Testing a new piece of software using a Vagrant box, I created a vagrant-install.sh in which I had to insert the line sql-mode=NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
inside an existing MySQL config file. I had to put it inside a specific section, so I targeted a line starting with datadir
.
The following sed command will add the new line above it. It will update the config file by using a temporary intermediate file.
sed -n 'H;${x;s/^\n//;s/datadir.*$/sql-mode=NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION\n&/;p;}' /your/file.cnf > tmp && mv tmp /your/file.cnf
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