From: Niall Sheridan (niall.sheridan at domain ormsby-rhodes.ie)
Date: Mon 10 Jun 2002 - 15:10:33 IST
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:48:31 -0500
Stephen_Reilly at domain dell.com wrote:
> Why not have a backup of all modified files. Then for uninstall overwrite
> with original.
Configuration files can change significantly at any point in time between the install and uninstall.
Niall
> steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Shirley [mailto:diamond at domain skynet.ie]
> Sent: 10 June 2002 14:22
> To: Irish Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Opposite of Cat >>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:57:06PM +0100, Brian Foster wrote:
> > this is trivial to un-install --- just delete all lines
> > between (and including) the two magic marker lines.
> > numerous tools can do this, sed(1) is perhaps a good
> > choice
>
> I'm just wondering, could you give a snippet of sed code to demonstrate
> this? I've used sed for line editing lots of times, but anything more
> complex, and the man page maketh no sense to me. I've even tried looking
> for example sed scripts on the sed homepage, but no joy. Therefore, for
> this sort of thing, i'd use sed, cause i know how -)
>
> Steve
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