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        !            18: .TH EDQUOTA 8 "July 9, 1988"
        !            19: .UC 5
        !            20: .SH NAME
        !            21: edquota \- edit user quotas
        !            22: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            23: .B edquota
        !            24: [
        !            25: .B \-p
        !            26: .I proto-user
        !            27: ]
        !            28: .IR users ...
        !            29: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            30: .I Edquota
        !            31: is a quota editor.  One or more users
        !            32: may be specified on the command line.
        !            33: For each user a temporary file is created
        !            34: with an ASCII representation of the current
        !            35: disc quotas for that user and an editor is
        !            36: then invoked on the file.  The quotas may then
        !            37: be modified, new quotas added, etc.  Upon
        !            38: leaving the editor,
        !            39: .I edquota
        !            40: reads the temporary file and modifies the binary
        !            41: quota files to reflect the changes made.
        !            42: .PP
        !            43: If the 
        !            44: .B \-p
        !            45: option is specified,
        !            46: .I edquota
        !            47: will duplicate the quotas of the prototypical user
        !            48: specified for each user specified.  This is the normal
        !            49: mechanism used to initialize quotas for groups
        !            50: of users.
        !            51: .PP
        !            52: The editor invoked is 
        !            53: .IR vi (1)
        !            54: unless the environment variable EDITOR specifies otherwise.
        !            55: .PP
        !            56: Only the super-user may edit quotas.
        !            57: .SH FILES
        !            58: .DT
        !            59: \fIquotas\fP           at the root of each file system with quotas
        !            60: .br
        !            61: /etc/fstab     to find file system names and locations
        !            62: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            63: quota(1), quota(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)
        !            64: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            65: Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory.
        !            66: .SH BUGS
        !            67: The format of the temporary file is inscrutable.

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