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This has probably been addressed before, but I couldn't find the answer if a brief search.

This is a snippet of my nsswitch.conf file:
# the following two lines obviate the "+" entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
passwd: files ldap
group: files ldap

# consult /etc "files" only if ldap is down.
hosts: files dns

What I want is to add a line AFTER passwd: files ldap that would look like:
passwd: files ldap
passwd_compat: ldap [tryagain=continue] #the space after the colon is a tab
group: files ldap

Thanks!

 

[PHV]

awk '
{print}
/^passwd:/{print "passwd_compat:\tldap [tryagain=continue]"
' /path/to/input > output

Hope This Helps, PH.
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Perfect. Thanks!