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Old 10-08-2008
c00kie88 c00kie88 is offline
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it looks as:

sed "s/\($name:.:[0-9]*:\)[0-9]*:\(.*\):\(/.*/.*\):\(/.*/.*\)/\1$answer\2/" /etc/passwd

I tried the single quote as era suggested, but SED is not happy