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From: "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com>
To: "Dave Leimbach" <dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com>, <don@whtech.com>
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Subject: RE: Help w/ Awk
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:29:25 -0700
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You obviously didn't read my code snippet... it' has the field separator
defined as :... neither the method in the code, nor the -F':' option work
correctly. When I try to have it print the first field ($1) I sometimes get
parts of other fields, like it's ignoring the separator.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Leimbach [mailto:dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:24 PM
> To: don@whtech.com
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Help w/ Awk
>
>
> read man for awk... look for field separator... :)
>
> have a nice day.
>
> Dave
> >Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> >From: "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com>
> >To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> >Subject: Help w/ Awk
> >Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:09:34 -0700
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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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