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Hi, is it possible that you have GNU sed installed separately? It often is installed in a different directory, perhaps as gsed, and it supports -i.

And I'll throw perl into the pot:

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perl -i.bak -e '$du = shift; while(<>){ s/,?$du// if /[:,]$du[:,]/; print; }' user_you_want_to_delete *.prm

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Code:

find . -type f -name '*.prm' | while read PERMFILE
do
    sed -e "s/,${name},/,/g" \
        -e "s/:${name}[:,]/:/" \
        -e "s/,${name}:/:/" $PERMFILE > /tmp/prm_tmp_$$
    cat /tmp/prm_tmp_$$ > $PERMFILE
done
rm /tmp/prm_tmp_$$

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