Re: methods and scripts

[Brendan Strejcek]

Chris Edillon wrote:

> i imagine it's something like this (correct me if i'm wrong brendan).
> the double-quotes before /bin/sed and after the last EOF contain the
> string which encompasses the shellcommand. the first set of single
> quotes contains the sed substitution command which tells sed to strip
> all leading whitespace from its input. its input begins is a here
> document bounded by the string ' EOF', where the single-quotes are
> telling it to use all of the whitespace before EOF as part of the end
> point of the here document (that's what allows him to indent the EOF
> in with the rest of the commands to make it look clean instead of
> sticking it at the beginning of a line where it looks out of place).
> the output of the sed command is piped into vipw, using ed as its
> editor instead of vi. and of course the here document contains all of
> the ed commands used to edit the passwd file.

Completely correct.