Insert block of text in file

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I am editing an Arch base installation script. I almost got it to work as I wanted!

I need to add the following into the end of /etc/pacman.conf

[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch

Before I used cat command and it deleted everything inside /etc/pacman.conf and just added this. But I need to add it to the end of the file.

Here is the script I currently have: https://github.com/ArchT420/T420/blob/master/installer.sh

Thank you!

sed -r '$s/.*/&\n[archlinuxfr]\nSigLevel = Never\nServer = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch/g' filename — Praveen Kumar BS, Oct 10 '18 at 03:24

Spacecow · Answer 1 · 2018-10-10T01:36:54.677

7

This solution seems to work:

#!/bin/bash


## Add AUR repository in /etc/pacman.conf
cat <<EOF >> /mnt/etc/pacman.conf
[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/\$arch
EOF

edited Oct 10 '18 at 01:36

answered Oct 09 '18 at 00:37

Spacecow

203

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '18 at 18:53

0

Why don't we simply use echo to append the context to a file.

echo -e '[archlinuxfr]\nSigLevel = Never\nServer = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch' >> /home/user/Documents/pacman.conf

answered Oct 09 '18 at 18:53

Siva

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Insert block of text in file

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