[augeas-devel] different behaviour of augtool interactively or when called by shell

[Ian Mortimer]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Jochen Haeberle wrote:

> But this does not work:
> 
> augtool -bs set /files/etc/hosts/*[ipaddr = '192.168.0.5']/canonical
> 'host.test.com'
> 
> Why's that?

The shell will expand a bare * to all files in the current directory.
You need to escape the * with a \ or quote the entire command:

augtool -bs 'set /files/etc/hosts/*[ipaddr = '192.168.0.5']/canonical 
"host.test.com"'


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Ian