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Use awk to uncomment specific lines of a file
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| # Strips n characters from the beginning of the line. This example uncomments a line in /etc/sudoers. | |
| n=3 | |
| cat /etc/sudoers | awk '/^# %wheel ALL=\(ALL\) ALL/ {$0=substr($0,$n)} 1 |
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