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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting grep -v 13 zeros in a string Post 302678095 by Habitual on Friday 27th of July 2012 08:16:36 AM
Old 07-27-2012
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1 for fast reply.
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Thank you very much.

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vipw(8) 						      System Manager's Manual							   vipw(8)

NAME
vipw,vigr - edit the password, group or shadow file SYNOPSIS
vipw [-g|-p|-s] vigr [-g|-p|-s] DESCRIPTION
vipw/vigr edits the passwd,group or shadow file after setting the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption. vipw edits per default the /etc/passwd file, vigr the /etc/group file. Extended attributes (like ACLs or security attributes) are preserved. ENVIRONMENT
EDITOR If the environment variable exists, the editor specified by this variable is used instead of the default vi(1). OPTIONS
-g, --group Edit /etc/group. -p, --passwd Edit /etc/passwd. -s, --shadow Edit /etc/shadow. -u, --usage Print a usage message and exit. --help Print a more verbose help text and exit. Print version information and exit. FILES
/etc/group - group account information /etc/passwd - user account information /etc/shadow - shadow account information SEE ALSO
attr(5), passwd(1), passwd(5), shadow(5), vi(1) AUTHOR
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> pwdutils October 2003 vipw(8)
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