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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
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To: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu, wolstena@sfu.ca
Subject: Re: Moving passwd files from LINUX to FreeBSD
Cc: alex@muse.org.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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>  I wanted to do a quick and 
>  dirty change to the home directory path but I can't figure out how to add 
>  a "/" to the replacement string using sed.  I wanted to make a global 
>  change to the home directory location -- /Users --> /home/edwina
>
>  I tried:
>
>  sed s/Users/home\/edwina/g passwd.file > passwd.new

close add the single quote to the substitute command:

sed 's/Users/home\/edwina/g' passwd.file > passwd.new

you can do this substitution in 'vipw' with vi as the EDITOR, and it
will save you the pwd_mkdb step. (ie:

# setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi	# or export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi for sh/bash
# vipw
:G
:1,.s/User/home\/edwina/g
:wq

)

--mark.

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