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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Changing text with sed? Post 13165 by primal on Saturday 12th of January 2002 07:57:24 PM
Old 01-12-2002
Question Changing text with sed?

Hi everyone,
Having trouble with sed. I searched the board and found some stuff, but still unclear.

I have a file named "userfile" which stores the users info in this form: email:username:password:

I want the user to be able to change their password.
i tried with sed s/oldpass/newpass/g userfile and it displayed to the standard output correct. then when i checked the userfile, it was still using the old password.

Then i found the "c" flag which is change. but then i try to test sed s/oldpass/newpass/c userfile i get a message
Function s/oldpass/newpass/c cannot be parsed

Can anyone help me? im just trying to allow a user to update their password and have the changes saved in userfile.

thanks!
primal
 

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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)
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