Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:09:34 -0700 From: "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Help w/ Awk Message-ID: <MOBBIPGJKBNNPGLGMFHFIEIBHCAA.don@whtech.com>
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I'm trying to write a simple script to extract the user name, UID and GID of
each user in the /etc/passwd file and I'm not quite sure what I'm doing
wrong here.... here's a code snippet;
#!/bin/sh
passwd=`cat /etc/passwd`
for user in $passwd
do
username=`echo $user | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" } END { print $1 }'`
echo $username
done
Where am I going wrong with awk? Sometime the result of $username is the
user name, but sometimes its another part of the entry in the file. I just
want the user name stuck into username.
Thanks!
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