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Old 10-08-2008
c00kie88 c00kie88 is offline
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Ok..

I use single quote..

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

but still no good..

what did i do wrong???