4.9. Batch editing

Do you want to apply a change to a lot of cobbler objects at once?

Try using xargs combined with cobbler list commands, such as:

cobbler profile list | xargs -n1 --replace cobbler profile edit --virt-bridge=xenbr1 --name={}

The above example sets the virtual bridge used by every cobbler profile to ‘xenbr1’.

You can filter the profile list by sticking a grep commmand in there as a pipe before the xargs.

See also Command Line Search