EDITOR environment variable usually takes care of that for most of them. An esoteric example from my MacOS X: sh-3.2# EDITOR='cat' vipw | grep root: root::0:

EDITOR environment variable usually takes care of that for most of them. An esoteric example from my MacOS X: sh-3.2# EDITOR='cat' vipw | grep root: root::0:0::0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/sh daemon::1:1::0:0:System Services:/var/root:/usr/bin/false vipw: no changes made vipw: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged _cvmsroot:*:212:212::0:0:CVMS Root:/var/empty:/usr/bin/false sh-3.2# Great excuse to talk about environment variables and changing/examining them...