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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 2004 04:02:01 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Brent Bailey <misterb@bmyster.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shell script
Message-ID:  <20041006010201.GJ1471@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <1358.65.175.209.179.1096993388.squirrel@new.host.name>
References:  <1358.65.175.209.179.1096993388.squirrel@new.host.name>

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On 2004-10-05 12:23, Brent Bailey <misterb@bmyster.com> wrote:
> i need to write a for-loop that will read the 1st line in a aliase file
> and grep a passwd file for that user...if that user doesnt exsist in the
> passwd file go the 2nd line and grep the passwd file for that user ...and
> so on
>
> anyone have any suggestions ?

: cat /etc/mail/aliases | \
: while read line ;do
:     echo $line
: done

But as someone else suggested Perl is a lot better for this task.



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