Thanks to John Heiden for giving me the answer. My original question is below. Well, you could use SED to do this. You could do something like: cp /etc/vfstab /etc/vfstab.old cat /etc/vfstab | sed "s/oldstring/#oldstring/" > /etc/vfstab.new cp /etc/vfstab.new /etc/vfstab > Everyone, > I am not a scripting guru, please don't hold it against me. I just > needed to modify the /etc/vfstab on several machines at one time and > unsure how to do that. > Basically, I need to find the machine name in the vfstab and comment it > out. > > ex. test1:/mountpoint > > to > #test1:/mountpoint. > > Any suggestions are welcome. -- Gary D Lopez Unix Systems Administrator Catapult Communications 160 S Whisman Rd Mountain View, CA 94041 Ph (650) 314-1029 Fax (650) 960-1029 ************************************************************* "This e-mail (and any attachments) may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. Thank you." ************************************************************* _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Feb 21 20:29:30 2007
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