remove vc/1, vc/2, etc. lines from /etc/securetty using augeas

[KC]

Hi All!

I'm trying to remove the vc/1-11 lines in my /etc/securetty file.

Is there a way to elegantly do this?

console

vc/1

vc/2

vc/3

.

.

vc/10

vc/11

tty/1

tty/2

tty/3

.

.

.

tty/10

tty/11

Doing:

rm /files/etc/securetty/*[.='vc/1'] works for one line

but

rm /files/etc/securetty/*[.='vc/*'] doesn't appear to iterate for the other vc lines.

Any suggestions?

-Kris

[David Lutterkort]

Hi Kris,

On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 4:21:44 PM UTC-7, KC wrote:

rm /files/etc/securetty/*[.='vc/1'] works for one line

but

rm /files/etc/securetty/*[.='vc/*'] doesn't appear to iterate for the other vc lines.

Any suggestions?

The trick is that you need to tell Augeas that you want to match a glob; in your second example, Augeas will look for nodes that have literally 'vc/*' in it. This should work:

 rm /files/etc/securetty/*[. =~ glob('vc/*') ]

David

[KC]

It works! Thank you David!!!