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diff --git a/manifests/defines/replace.pp b/manifests/defines/replace.pp index 7dabe59..dd8db4d 100644 --- a/manifests/defines/replace.pp +++ b/manifests/defines/replace.pp @@ -2,6 +2,16 @@ # Copyright (C) 2007 David Schmitt <david@schmitt.edv-bus.at> # See LICENSE for the full license granted to you. +# A hack to replace all occurrences of a regular expression in a file with a +# specified string. Sometimes it can be less effort to replace only a single +# value in a huge config file instead of creating a template out of it. Still, +# creating a template is often better than this hack. +# +# This define uses perl regular expressions. +# +# Use this only for very trivial stuff. Usually replacing the whole file is a +# more stable solution with less maintenance headaches afterwards. +# # Usage: # # replace { description: |