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I have a list of users from 1 command - 

getent group ldap-group|cut -c 32-700

This gives me a list of users in the form 

user1,user2,user3...

I would like to insert this into /etc/group under sshd

sshd:x:74:adminuser,root

And I'd like to keep all the text up until root.

I have tried this sed command but it does not actually modify the file correctly.

sudo sed -i "s/^(sshd:x:\\d+:root,).*/\\$1(getent group ldap-group|cut -c 32-700)/" /etc/group

Can anyone help me with the sed syntax?

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I wouldn't try and do it as a one liner

groupappend=$(getent group ldap-group|cut -c 32-700) sed -n "/^sshd:/s/$/,$groupappend/p" /etc/group

and if this works for you then 

sed -i "/^sshd:/s/$/,$groupappend/" /etc/group

It wasn't clear that you would be running this multiple times, try

sed -i "/^sshd/c\sshd:x:74:adminuser,root,$groupappend" /etc/group

instead.

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  • OK that sort of works but I would like to run the command every hour via cron and that will append multiple sshd lines to /etc/group? Commented Jan 21, 2014 at 21:24
  • @BryanCochrane: Nope. Commented Jan 21, 2014 at 21:26
  • When I ran the last command I ended up with a new identical sshd line added each time. Commented Jan 21, 2014 at 21:28
  • @BryanCochrane: I only get one sshd:... line on my CentOS system. Commented Jan 21, 2014 at 21:29

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