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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users assistance requested (sed related) Post 302163748 by reborg on Saturday 2nd of February 2008 05:16:42 AM
Old 02-02-2008
Awk is a much less unsuitable tool for manipulating a paswd file than sed.

Also be aware that on many systems root's password is set to /sbin/sh and uses a statically compiles shell which should not be changed.

Code:
sed 's#:[^:][^:]*$#/bin/bash#' /etc/passwd

 

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