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From: cbp@foster.avid.oz.au (Cameron Paine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: edit first line of long file
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.154444.12966@foster.avid.oz.au>
Date: 25 Oct 90 15:44:44 GMT
References: <27338@shamash.cdc.com>
Organization: Avid Systems Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia.
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In <27338@shamash.cdc.com> ddh@hare.cdc.com (Dan Horsfall) writes:

>Plan B: pull off the first line with "line", pass it to sed, and
>somehow magically get lines 2-n sent to stdout with cat. [...]

Try something like:

	(line | sed 's/root/ROOT/'; cat) < /etc/passwd

Cameron
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