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Re: Edquota alternative for setting quotas?

From: Matthew Weigel (uniqueidempot.net)
Date: Fri Jul 01 2005 - 17:55:55 CDT


Robert Jacobs said:

> I am seeking a way to automate edquota from a shell script. Is there an a
> way to
> pipe input into edquota and bypass vi.

$EDITOR. You'll have to play with it a bit, but write a shell script that
takes a filename on the command line, and parses/modifies that file as a
quota file, then saves it and exits.

Then do

$ EDITOR=my_script edquota <user>

> Or is there some way other than
> using
> edquota that I can use to have a script create many individual quotas?

You can edit the binary file edquota deals with. Read the man page.
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