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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 11:36:40 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin for Windows Me
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:59:07AM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:53:34AM -0400, (STi) Michael C. Schatz wrote:
> >> >In that case is there a way for mkpasswd to maintain shell choice?
> >>
> >> mkpasswd
> >> vi /etc/passwd
> >> :%s%/bin/sh%/bin/bash%
> >> ZZ
> >
> >---mymkpasswd----
> >#!/bin/sh
> >mkpasswd
> >cat /etc/passwd | sed -e 's#/bin/sh#/bin/bash#' > /tmp/passwd
> >mv /tmp/passwd /etc/passwd
> >-----------------
> 
> Aha!  Script wars!
> 
> I'll stop here.  You win.
> 

Hmm...  Since it's a war ;), how about

  cat << EOD > /etc/passwd.ex
  %s%/bin/sh%/bin/bash%
  exit
  EOD
  vi -s /etc/passwd.ex -es /etc/passwd
  rm /etc/passwd.ex

Earnie.

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