Open a remote file and edit it

Ruby
1

Guys i want to open a file on another machine lets say test.txt, read it
find (grep) for example the text “localhost” and replace it with a
machine name and then close the file. I can connect to the machine using
ssh or sftp but as far editing a file I’m not sure how to.

Any help much appreciated.

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Paul Donaghy wrote:

Guys i want to open a file on another machine lets say test.txt, read it
find (grep) for example the text “localhost” and replace it with a
machine name and then close the file. I can connect to the machine using
ssh or sftp but as far editing a file I’m not sure how to.

Any help much appreciated.

require ‘net/ssh’
require ‘net/sftp’

Net::SSH.start( ‘server’, ‘user’, ‘password’ ) do |session|
session.sftp.connect do |sftp|
# use sftp to pull the file to a local copy
# perform string surgery on the local copy
# and use sftp.put_file to copy it back
end
end