09-18-2008
Nope, it changes any slash which is preceded by a character which is not dot into an underscore.
^ means "start of line" only outside of [...] character classes. In a character class, ^ is the negation operator if it's the first character after the opening square bracket.
The parentheses \(...\) just select which part to use in the substitution; anything matching the expression between \( and \) will be available in the substitution part as \1. (If you have multiple parentheses, the following ones will be in \2, \3, etc. Numbering corresponds to the order of the opening parentheses.)
So: take any character except a dot, followed by slash, and substitute with whatever matched the "not a dot" and underscore.
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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
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)