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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Author: Arthur Xiong
+# Date: 06/21/2010
+# Description: Script to automatically update help string for each 
+#              node.def according to the inputs 
+
+# **** License ****
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+# General Public License for more details.
+#
+# This code was originally developed by Vyatta, Inc.
+# Portions created by Vyatta are Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Vyatta, Inc.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# **** End License ****
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+die "Usage: update-helpstring.pl <helpstring-file> <path-to-template>"
+ unless $#ARGV == 1;
+
+my $helpstring;
+my $path;
+my $comment;
+my $help_line;
+my $node_def;
+my $helpstring_file = $ARGV[0];
+my $prefix  = $ARGV[1];
+
+open my $hf, '<', $helpstring_file or die "$helpstring_file can't be opened";
+while (<$hf>) {    
+    chomp;
+    next if /^#.*/ or /^\s*$/;
+    die "Syntax Error \"$_\"" unless /^(\S+)\s+\|\s*(\S.*)$/;
+    $path = $1;
+    $helpstring = $2;
+
+    $help_line = "";
+    $help_line = "help: " . $helpstring . "\n";
+    print "$help_line";
+
+    $node_def = "";
+    $node_def = $prefix . "/" . $path . "/" . "node.def";
+
+    open my $nf, '<', $node_def  or die "$node_def can't be opened";
+    open my $nfn, '>', "$node_def.new" or die "$node_def.new can't be opened";
+    while (<$nf>) {
+        if ( /^help:/ ) {
+            print $nfn $help_line;
+        } else {
+            print $nfn $_;
+        }
+    }
+    close $nfn;
+    close $nf;
+
+    rename "$node_def.new", "$node_def"
+     or die "$node_def.new can't be renamed to $node_def";
+
+    print "Updated $node_def\n\n";
+}
+close $hf;