08-18-2008
Perhaps i am not going about this correctly. Here is my "test file":
$cat test.txt
coo
coo
ca
choo
$
Let's say I simply want to replace the first line (coo) with koo.
With the above suggestion:
$sed '1c\'"koo" test.txt
sed: 1: "1c\koo": extra characters after \ at the end of c command
Putting a space before "koo" yields:
$sed '1c\' "koo" test.txt
sed: koo: No such file or directory
coo
ca
choo
I get closer by typing:
$sed '1c\
> koo' test.txt
koocoo
ca
choo
But it's still not right. I am using the bash that comes with OS X Leopard. Any ideas on what's going wrong?
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nwbpset
NWBPSET(1) nwbpset NWBPSET(1)
NAME
nwbpset - Create a bindery property or set its value
SYNOPSIS
nwbpset [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C ]
DESCRIPTION
nwbpset Reads a property specification from the standard input and creates and sets the corresponding property. The format is determined by
the output of 'nwbpvalues -c'. nwbpset will hopefully become an important part of the bindery management suite of ncpfs, together with
'nwbpvalues -c'. See util/nwbpsecurity for an example.
As another example, look at the following command line:
nwbpvalues -t 1 -o supervisor -p user_defaults -c |
sed '2s/.*/ME/'|
sed '3s/.*/LOGIN_CONTROL/'|
nwbpset
With this command, the property user_defaults of the user object 'supervisor' is copied into the property login_control of the user object
'me'.
nwbpvalues -t 1 -o me -p login_control -c |
sed '9s/.*/ff/'|
nwbpset
This command disables the user object me.
Feel free to contribute other examples!
nwbpset looks up the file $HOME/.nwclient to find a file server, a user name and possibly a password. See nwclient(5) for more information.
Please note that the access permissions of $HOME/.nwclient MUST be 600 for security reasons.
OPTIONS
-h
-h is used to print out a short help text.
-S server
server is the name of the server you want to use.
-U user
user is the user name to use for login.
-P password
password is the password to use for login. If neither -n nor -P are given, and the user has no open connection to the server, nwbpset
prompts for a password.
-n
-n should be given if no password is required for the login.
-C
By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before they are sent to the server, because most servers require this. You can turn off
this conversion by -C.
AUTHORS
nwbpset was written by Volker Lendecke. See the Changes file of ncpfs for other contributors.
nwbpset 8/7/1996 NWBPSET(1)