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Line change in .profile for many users
- Thread starter mbach
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best thing to do is probably put
the line in /etc/profile like hnd
said. but just if you want to know
how else it might be done ....
something like this maybe
#!/bin/sh
for file in /home/*/.profile
do
sed s|fileA|fileB|g $file > tmp
mv tmp $file
done
it might work ... im not used to writing shell
scripts so anyone feel free to criticise
the line in /etc/profile like hnd
said. but just if you want to know
how else it might be done ....
something like this maybe
#!/bin/sh
for file in /home/*/.profile
do
sed s|fileA|fileB|g $file > tmp
mv tmp $file
done
it might work ... im not used to writing shell
scripts so anyone feel free to criticise
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