edit first line of long file

[Cameron Paine]

In <27338 at shamash.cdc.com> ddh at hare.cdc.com (Dan Horsfall) writes:

>Plan B: pull off the first line with "line", pass it to sed, and
>somehow magically get lines 2-n sent to stdout with cat. [...]

Try something like:

	(line | sed 's/root/ROOT/'; cat) < /etc/passwd

Cameron
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