First, with recent Augeas versions (>= 1.0.0), you can use --transform
to set up the transformation. Let's say the file is ./users.xml
:
$ augtool -r . --noautoload --transform "Xml.lns incl /users.xml"
augtool> defnode user /files/users.xml/security/users/user[id/#text="deployment"] # Create a new user entry if it doesn't exist yet, assign node to the "user" variable
augtool> set $user/id/#text "deployment" # Set id if node was just created
augtool> set $user/firstName/#text "Deployment" # Set firstName
augtool> set $user/lastName/#text "User" # Set lastName
augtool> set $user/email/#text "changeme1@yourcompany.com" # set email
...
augtool> save
Saved 1 file(s)
You can even turn this into a script, say user.augtool
:
#!/usr/bin/augtool -sf
defnode user /files/users.xml/security/users/user[id/#text="deployment"]
set $user/id/#text "deployment"
set $user/firstName/#text "Deployment"
set $user/lastName/#text "User"
set $user/email/#text "changeme1@yourcompany.com"
which you can then launch:
$ chmod +x user.augtool
$ ./user.augtool --transform "Xml.lns incl /users.xml" -r .
Saved 1 file(s)