Hi Štěpán, On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Štěpán Balážik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now, when I want to create similar *programmatically *using augtool I run > into this: > > $ augtool > augtool> set tmp/test2.min/file > augtool> save > error: Failed to execute command > saving failed (run 'errors' for details) > augtool> errors > Error in /tmp/test2.min:1.0 (parse_skel_failed) > Input string does not match at all > Lens: /usr/share/augeas/lenses/minimal.aug:8.10-.142: > > When I was trying to create empty (or almost empty) file like this one > using the lenses distributed with Augeas (the one for /etc/hosts for > example) I ran to no such problems so I suppose I am doing something wrong. > The problem you are running into is that Augeas parses the original file right before it saves changes; that is necessary to recover things that are in the file but not in the tree, like whitespace. Your lens does not accept an empty file, it requires that a file contains, at a minimum, "BEGIN\nEND\n". If you change your lens to accept an empty file (e.g., by putting a '?' at the end of your definition of lns), all should be well. David
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