[TriLUG] OT - Help merging multiple files into a single file

[Scott Lambdin]

Wouldn't "cat * | sort | uniq > /tmp/newsudoers" put stuff in the wrong
sections?  Don't have a sudoers file in front of me so I am going by memory.

On 11/8/07, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 7, 2007 4:09 PM,  <howard.x.boyd at gsk.com> wrote:
> > Could someone please suggest a unix command or utility that will help me
> > merge the contents of multiple files into a single file. We currently
> have
> > 200+ AIX systems with a /etc/sudoers file on each server. The contents
> of
> > these files may or may not be the same. The goal is to examine the
> > contents of all the files and merge them into a single master sudoers
> file
> > that will be maintained and periodically pushed out to all the servers.
> > Would appreciate any suggestions or ideas on how best to accomplish this
> > task. Thanks,
>
> What are the rules?
>
> What determines a command match?
> Are aliases LCD or additive?
> How to resolve conflicts?
>
> You certainly could do "cat * | sort | uniq > /tmp/newsudoers" (Andrew
> Perrin) and then manually merge from there.  To cut down on whitespace
> differences, you could run sed on all the files to remove leading,
> trailing, and any excess whitespace in between.
>
> I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to write a perl script to do per
> field merging.
>
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