Shell Programming and Scripting

That is so unfortunate for me, but I tried replacing -i with -e and even trail and error with single and double quotes, it never worked. Is there any other way to solve this problem? I even tried awk as above but it didn't changed the content at all.

Are you running this in linux sever only,right?

which flavour of linux you are using. "-i" command is the well known command to me..am using this from past 3 yrs.

I'm trying that on aix. My bad, to say that so late. I thought you might know that my seeing probhit to aix.

we have some minor differences for linux to aix.

I dont have aix server now to check, please try like this hope it will work fine to you.

Code:

sed  "/ssh\|emagent/s/prohibit/aix/g" /etc/pam.conf > output_file

(at the same time try with single quotes)

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I am sure single code will work in aix.

Code:

sed '/ssh\|emagent/s/prohibit/aix/g' /etc/pam.conf > output_file

Have a good time.

I'm sorry to say this, but still unable to change the content.

Please try below two commands one with single quote and another with double quote and these commands will replace prohibit with aix word for the lines which are starting with ssh or emagent.

Note :- below commands will replace the lines starting with ssh and emagent only not with sshd. if you want to replace with sshd also please remove the space after "ssh" in the command.

Code:

  sudo sed "/^ssh \|^emagent/s/prohibit/aix/g"  filename

Code:

 sudo sed '/^ssh \|^emagent/s/prohibit/aix/g' filename

Best Regards,
Kalyan

Thank you, it worked.