[K12OSN] How about a scripting question :-)

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:23:26 -0600, Mike Oliveri wrote
> This might be too easy, but give this a shot. Copy /etc/group to a 
> new file and delete all the other lines until you have your comma-delimited
> group of users.
> 
> Then use sed to turn all of the commas into newlines (/n).
> 
> sed s/\,/\/n/g newfile >> /etc/mailusers
> 
> I've escaped the comma just in case. The forward slash for the 
> newline does have to be escaped, though.
> 
> That's off the top of my head. I'm fuzzy on such things. Might want 
> to experiment with a different output file first! :)

I get the following error, working on figuring out what it means.
[root at file ~]# sed s/\,/\/n/g group >> /root/mailusers
sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unknown option to `s'

Thanks

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