Best way to add 2 lines to multiple files

xaitmi

Hi there.

Basically I have 50+.ovpn config files.

I need to add the following 2 lines UNDER the line persist-tun in each file.

remote-cert-tls server

auth-nocache

Doing it manually would be a pain.

Does anyone have any tricks to get this done in seconds?

theqkash

notepad++
Search and Replace

Take a look at search type - its "Extended"

You can change it in each open file or in all files located in some directory on your hard drive.

xaitmi

@theqkash said:
notepad++
Search and Replace

Take a look at search type - its "Extended"

You can change it in each open file or in all files located in some directory on your hard drive.

Thank you so much!

I fired up one of my Windows VMs installed Notepad++ and got it done in 2 seconds.

eastonch

ls | xargs -i echo "remote-cert-tls server \n auth-nocache" >> {}
Maybe?

Bascially, for each result in ls, (or dir) will be subject to:
echo "remote-cert-tls server \n auth-nocache" >> filename.extension

Note: This assumes that persist-tun is at the bottom, as this appends the above lines to the end of the file.

theqkash

xaitmi said: Thank you so much!

I fired up one of my Windows VMs installed Notepad++ and got it done in 2 seconds.

No problem, you just owe me a beer ;-)

impossiblystupid

The more scriptable way is diff/patch. I just did this to update the encoding of a bunch of XML files:

$ cat encoding.patch 
 1c1
 < <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
---
 > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 $ find . -name node.xml -exec patch {} encoding.patch  \;