Create easy templates for creating jobs etc using linux

[wim.ve...@billinghouse.nl]

I recently had to create a script to create the same jobs for multiple environments.

I came up with the following solution:

I create a template file with the commands. The part that is variable per environment I replace with placeholders like #ENV# so you get a statement like

-- snippet start template.sdm  --

#

# create the top level folder

#

create or alter folder SYSTEM.'#ENV#' 

with

group='PUBLIC',

environment=none,

inherit grants = none,

parameters = (

TARGET_NODE = '#NODE#'

);

-- snippet end template.sdm --

I then also created a simple shell script that will remove the # comments (I hate the /* */ comments :)) and replaces the placeholders. This looks like this :

-- snippet start --

#!/bin/bash

usage() {

echo "$0 <name of target system> <url>"

echo "  example: $0 TEST https://dev11.nova.essent.be/billing-esbe"

exit 1

}

if [ $# -ne 2 ]

then

usage

fi

# first two sed invocations will remove the remarks in template sdm file. The others will replace the actual placeholders.

# Note that the we also use % as substitute separator, this is because the URL can contain /, which messes up the command.

# Finally the result will be fed into sdmsh to make the database entries.

#

cat template.sdm | sed 's/# .*$//' | sed 's/^#$//' | sed s%#ENV#%$1%g | sed s%#NODE#%$2%g | sdmsh

-- snippet end--

It works very nice for me, maybe it helps somebody else.

Regards,

Wim Veldhuis.