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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Alternate for sed -i in AIX Post 302752601 by radoulov on Monday 7th of January 2013 09:12:48 AM
Old 01-07-2013
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Originally Posted by Scott
Only if the closing EOF is indented with a TAB (or nothing at all - it won't work if those are spaces before it).

A note to radoulov's solution (which is nice Smilie). Moving a temporary file over an existing file can be dangerous.
Great point Scott!
sed's -i is far more sophisticated (if I recall correctly, it handles even extended acls).

To the OP: with this manual method you'll need to handle the file permissions/inode changes manually ...
 

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asadmin-list-acls

asadmin-list-acls(1AS)						   User Commands					    asadmin-list-acls(1AS)

NAME

       list-acls  - gets the access control lists

SYNOPSIS

       list-acls --user admin_user[--password admin_password][--host localhost] [--port 4848][--passwordfile filename][--secure|-s]instance_name

       Gets the access control lists associated with the named server instance.

OPTIONS

       --user		       administrative user associated for the instance.

       --password	       administrative password corresponding to the administrative user.

       --host		       host name of the machine hosting the administrative instance.

       --port		       administrative port number associated with the administrative host.

       --secure 	       indicates communication with the administrative instance in secured mode.

       --passwordfile	       file containing passwords appropriate for the command (e.g., administrative instance).

OPERANDS

       instance_name	       name of the instance.

       Example 1: Using list-acls

       asadmin> list-acls --user admin --password adminadmin --host fuyako --port 7070 server1
       acl1
       sampleACL

       Where: acl1 and sampleACL are the names of the ACLs listed.

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

INTERFACE EQUIVALENT

       Access Control List page

       asadmin-create-acl(1AS), asadmin-delete-acl(1AS)

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