sed command needed please

[Dadski]

Morning All,

I am writing a remediation script to a very tight deadline accross HPUX, Solaris and AIX, and am looking for something that I am sure is pretty easy but isconsuming lots of my time.

I am looking to edit a text file using sed. base on different conditions,  so a file may have the following different entries.

DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd

#DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd

DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd/helpme

DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd/elvis/is/alive

etc

I want to simply replace any of these with

DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd

using sed, any ideas?

thanks  very much

Martin

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

Probably something simple like:

sed -e 's:.*DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd.*$:DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd:' file > file.new

[Dennis Handly]

Besides marking my post as a solution, it would nice if you also assigned kudos.