@Don Cragun: Thanks for drawing the attention to these aspects. As I said, tinkering with system files is always a thing to consider twice.
Btw, you should add a s/:,/:/ to your sed cmd in case $Usr would be the first in $Grp.
Good catch. And doing that in the ed script would be something like:
with the .g needed in front of the second s command to preserve the 0 exit status if $Grp was found and $Usr wasn't the first user in the group.
One should also make sure that the script isn't adding a user to the "nobody" group nor the "nogroup" group (or other groups depending on the OS on the machine), but I didn't bother because the idea of editing /etc/passwd, /etc/group, or any corresponding shadow files because usermod won't work (without explaining why usermod won't work) still just seems wrong.
:confused:
I have a script that Cats a flat database file which contains 12 columns into sed. I want to add a 13th column which includes " ,2005-08-29 " * The date needs to be the current date.
This 13th column would be appended to the end of each line.
Does anyone have a clue... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have been trying to format a file using sed. I can't seem to get the syntax right. I want to append the string from file1.txt to file1.csv with the final output file being file2.csv, but before the string is appended to the end of each line, first insert a comma.
Here is the sed... (2 Replies)
i am trying to append a 5 line SGML file(file1) with a 500,000 line SGML file (file2).
file1 is a template, so i wish to preserve.
i only want to add lines 5 to the end of file2.
i have:
cp file1 temp1
sed -n '5,$p' file2 >> temp1
when i check the tail of temp1, i consistantly find the... (3 Replies)
I keep trying to append some astrix to the end of a line, but it keeps overwriting at the front of the line.
These are the originals
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900
... (5 Replies)
I want to append matched output and cat the results into an variable. but I've been running into problems. sed is printing result on to screen instead of appending the output to $CAPTURE. I'm stumped...how should i fix this?
contents of $TEST
10.0.0.1
10.0.0.2
10.0.0.3
10.0.0.4
expected... (5 Replies)
Hi,
Here is my piece of code used with sed in shell script:
sed -i '/<falsemodule-option>/ a\<LdapLogin>' myxmlfile
The problem that i am facing with the above is that in 'myxml' file i have mulitple instances of <falsemodule-option>
so when i execute the above sed command, it is appending... (10 Replies)
hello all,
First time post here. I have searched a bit but could not find an exact answer. I have about a week's experience of Sed and Awk, and am having fun, but am a little stuck.
I am reformatting an xml file into json format. I have got this far:
{"clients":
...and so on. What I want... (22 Replies)
Hey all
I am trying to append a file called datebook.txt. I want to append the end of each line containing the name Fred with three ***. I believe I need to make the * loose its meta character meaning in addition to using the append command. I have tried several variations of this command and I... (3 Replies)
i have a number of java files containing
eg:
--------------myfile.java--------------
package zip.fun.myfiles;
import java.*
import something..;
import sdfdfdsa;
...
...
--------------------------------------------
Now I need to append / insert a line as follows:
... (10 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pclock
PCLOCK(1) General Commands Manual PCLOCK(1)NAME
pclock - pixmap clock
SYNOPSIS
pclock [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the pclock command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
pclock is a program that places a small analog clock program on the desktop of X. It was designed to run under the WindowMaker window man-
ager. It uses any 64x64 pixmap as a background.
OPTIONS
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-') and short optoins starting with one
dash. A summary of options is included below.
-B PIXMAP, --background=PIXMAP
Use the given pixmap as the clock background (size must be 64x64).
-H COLOR, --hands-color=COLOR
Draw the hands (hour, minute and second) in the specified color.
-S COLOR, --second-hand-color
Draw the second hand in the specified color
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
--hour-hand-length=INT
Draw the hour hand with the specified length of INT.
--minute-hand-length=INT
Draw the minute hand with the specified length of INT.
--second-hand-length=INT
Draw the second hand with the specified length of INT.
--second-hand-width=INT
Draw the minute hand with the specified width of INT.
-s, --second-hand
Don't display the second hand.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
-w, --withdrawn
Don't start up in a withdrawn (iconic) state.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). The soft-
ware is copyrighted (c) 1998 by and released under the GPL v2.
Author: Alexander Kourakos <Alexander@Kourakos.com>
Web: http://www.kourakos.com/~awk/pclock/
PCLOCK(1)