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Bash Script - How to automate a nano command?

How can I edit a file saved on a remote server (from Terminal) not using nano command?

Here the code to inject

import sys
sys.path.append('/opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages')

I tried to solve this problem of writing not using nano command using wget+cat to file location and it seems to work.

wget https://REMOTE_SERVER_URL/HTTPRequest.py
cat HTTPRequest.py > /opt/share/pyload/module/network/HTTPRequest.py

But there are some errors here, after the script correctly saves "pyload"

wget https://REMOTE_SERVER_URL/pyload
cat pyload > /etc/init.d/pyload
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/pyload

It then says

update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/pyload missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/pyload ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K20pyload -> ../init.d/pyload
   /etc/rc1.d/K20pyload -> ../init.d/pyload
   /etc/rc6.d/K20pyload -> ../init.d/pyload
   /etc/rc2.d/S20pyload -> ../init.d/pyload
   /etc/rc3.d/S20pyload -> ../init.d/pyload
   /etc/rc4.d/S20pyload -> ../init.d/pyload
   /etc/rc5.d/S20pyload -> ../init.d/pyload

EDIT23NOV: cleared the code

Solution

  • Don't use nano, you can use sed, could be something like

    sed -i '/import pycurl/i \
import sys \
sys.path.append("/opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages")' opt/share/pyload/module/network/HTTPRequest.py

    I didn't test it so maybe you should escape the slashes inside the append.

    And first, do a backup of the file because the -i modifier will overwrite your file