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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how can I delete lines without actually going into the file Post 17654 by LivinFree on Tuesday 19th of March 2002 04:12:33 AM
Old 03-19-2002
No, it's very much line oriented. I very very very rarely use it, and for that reason don't know too much about it. The man page on my system if fairly helpful though. You might also see if you've got "ex" installed - I believe it's a little more friendly / powerful.
 

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cmdprivadm(1M)															    cmdprivadm(1M)

NAME
cmdprivadm - noninteractive editing of a command's authorization and privilege information in the privrun database SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
is a noninteractive command that allows user with appropriate permission to add or delete a command and its privileges in the Role-Base Access Control (RBAC) database, See privrun(1M) for more details on this file. When adding a line to the database, sets fields that are not specified a default value. When deleting a line, the lines matching all the given pairs will be deleted. That is, if all fields specified match, the entry will be deleted. Appends a line as specified in pairs in the file. Deletes a line as specified in pairs from file. HP recommends that only the and commands be used to edit and view the RBAC databases; do not edit the RBAC files directly. See rbac(5) for information on the RBAC databases. Options The following options are valid pairs for command should include the full path name of the command. There can be one or more arguments following the command. filename should specify the full path name of a file name. Specifies the operation. Specifies the object. Specifies the real user ID (ruid). Specifies the effective user ID (euid). Specifies the real group ID (rgid). Specifies the effective group ID (egid). Specifies the compartment. Specifies the privileges. Specifies the PAM service name to reauthenticate under. See pam.conf(4) for a list of PAM services. Specifies the flags. Note: You must enclose values that contain the space character, or any characters that may be interpreted by the shell, with single quotes. For example, if the has one or more arguments, enclose them with single quotes: Authorizations: In order to invoke the user must either be root, (running with effective UID of 0), or have the appropriate authorizations. The following is a list of the required authorizations for running with particular options: Allows user to run with options. Allows user to run with options. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables determines the language in which messages are displayed. International Code Set Support Single-byte character code set is supported. RETURN VALUE
Upon completion, returns one of the following values: Success. Failure. An appropriate error message is printed on standard error. EXAMPLES
The following commands add entries into the file: The following commands delete entries from the file: FILES
Database containing valid definitions of all roles. Database containing definitions of all valid authorizations. Database specifying the roles allowed for each specified user. Database defining the authorizations for each specified role. Database containing the authorization to execute specified commands, and the privileges to alter UID and GID for command execution. SEE ALSO
authadm(1M), privrun(1M), rbacdbchk(1M), roleadm(1M), rbac(5). cmdprivadm(1M)
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