Scripting /etc/fstab changes

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On 12/5/06, Gaddis, Jeremy L. <jeremy at linuxwiz.net> wrote:
> On 12/5/06, David Tonhofer <d.tonhofer at m-plify.com> wrote:
>
> > Try this perl script, it's probably unelegant as hell but I found it in
> > my "hacks" directory.
> > No guarantees!!! Try it first manually, then set reallyWrite to 1 to
> > replace your fstab.
>
> Why a huge script when you can easily do it with a sed one-liner?
>
> sed -i -e 's/^hostA/hostB/g' /etc/fstab

Or to rewrite /etc/fstab in place with perl at least something like

perl -p -i -e s/hostA/hostB/ /etc/fstab

John