On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Brian Hartvigsen wrote:
> I added POS_MEDITATE To my MUD it kept crashing because the mobfiles store
> POS_STANDING as 8 adding POS_MEDITATE made standing PPOS_STANDING a 9 so I
> had to go through EVERY .mob file and change any 8 8 (default and starting
> POS) I did this by hand in Windows so I can't tell you how to do it for
> your OS.
Well,
% sed s/"^8 8"/"9 9"/ xxx.mob > xxx.mob.new
will do the replacement automatically. However, it'll also change some
lines that it shouldn't. The changes are written into xxx.mob.new.
After that, we'll want to compare the changes made to ensure that we
didn't change anything that we shouldn't have. With the stock CircleMUD
world, there are two lines that are modified that shouldn't be (one in
25.mob and one in 54.mob) that I saw. Needless to say, altering those two
lines is much easier than altering a magnitude more for the same effect.
Now the trick is to get this to run automatically and recursively on all
mob files. How you do this depends upon your shell. With BASH, and thus
probably most shells,
% for f in *.mob ; do sed s/"^8 8"/"9 9"/ $f > $f.new ; done
but in tcsh, you'll do,
% foreach f ( *.mob )
and when you're prompted with "foreach?" do,
foreach? sed s/"^8 8"/"9 9"/ $f > $f.new
foreach? end
If you don't care about errant changes, then just copy all of the .new
files over the originals. If you do want to double-check, run "diff -u
xxx.mob xxx.mob.new" to get a list of all changes (you might want to pipe
this to 'less' or some other pagination program, since the output'll be
over one page long in most cases). Note the changes (or save the output
of 'diff' to a file), copy over the .new file, and manually revert bad
changes.
Like I said, there were only two in stock CircleMUD, and I think the only
effect of replacing those "8 8"s was raising a mobile's level and thac0 by
one. That's probably not a very big deal.
-dak
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