From 85f7880c7ed4b86453e837bc781861ac0cd694e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Armstrong <steven@icarus.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:50:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add a hopefully more robust implementation for changing
 existing values

Signed-off-by: Steven Armstrong <steven@icarus.ethz.ch>
---
 conf/type/__key_value/gencode-remote | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/conf/type/__key_value/gencode-remote b/conf/type/__key_value/gencode-remote
index eff0925c..08b3a0f3 100755
--- a/conf/type/__key_value/gencode-remote
+++ b/conf/type/__key_value/gencode-remote
@@ -40,10 +40,7 @@ DONE
          else
             # change value
             cat << DONE
-awk -F "$delimiter" '
-/${key}${delimiter}*/{gsub("$value_is", "$value_should")};{print}' "$file" > "${file}+" \
-&& mv "${file}+" "$file"
-
+sed -i "s|^$key\($delimiter\+\).*|$key\1$value_should|" "$file"
 DONE
          fi
       ;;