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1.1     ! root        1: .TH EDQUOTA 8 "18 July 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: edquota \- edit user quotas
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B edquota
        !             7: [
        !             8: .B \-p
        !             9: .I proto-user
        !            10: ]
        !            11: .IR users ...
        !            12: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            13: .I Edquota
        !            14: is a quota editor.  One or more users
        !            15: may be specified on the command line.
        !            16: For each user a temporary file is created
        !            17: with an ASCII representation of the current
        !            18: disc quotas for that user and an editor is
        !            19: then invoked on the file.  The quotas may then
        !            20: be modified, new quotas added, etc.  Upon
        !            21: leaving the editor,
        !            22: .I edquota
        !            23: reads the temporary file and modifies the binary
        !            24: quota files to reflect the changes made.
        !            25: .PP
        !            26: If the 
        !            27: .B \-p
        !            28: option is specified,
        !            29: .I edquota
        !            30: will duplicate the quotas of the prototypical user
        !            31: specified for each user specified.  This is the normal
        !            32: mechanism used to initialize quotas for groups
        !            33: of users.
        !            34: .PP
        !            35: The editor invoked is 
        !            36: .IR vi (1)
        !            37: unless the environment variable EDITOR specifies otherwise.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: Only the super-user may edit quotas.
        !            40: .SH FILES
        !            41: .DT
        !            42: \fIquotas\fP           at the root of each file system with quotas
        !            43: .br
        !            44: /etc/fstab     to find file system names and locations
        !            45: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            46: quota(1), quota(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)
        !            47: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            48: Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory.
        !            49: .SH BUGS
        !            50: The format of the temporary file is inscruitable.

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