Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 19:08:10 -0700 From: "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com> To: "Sue Blake" <sue@welearn.com.au>, "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Help w/ Awk Message-ID: <MOBBIPGJKBNNPGLGMFHFCEIFHCAA.don@whtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20010516115758.L26110@welearn.com.au>
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That's a simpler way of doing it, but doesn't accomplish what I'm trying to
do. I'm trying to be able to loop through each user and get it's UID/GID and
do stuff...
My problem wasn't with my AWK statement, but with my for/next loop.
For whatever reason (still unknown), the for Line in Password was failing,
and was returning multiple lines, like there were EOL's embedded in the
lines.
I ended up doing a hybrid of your technique... first stripping the
/etc/password of the 3 components I needed and making a new file, then
looping through the lines it it.
Weird.
Don
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sue Blake
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:58 PM
> To: Don O'Neil
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Help w/ Awk
>
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:09:34PM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote:
> > 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;
>
> Why not just use this:
>
> awk -F: '{print $1 " " $3 " " $4}' < /etc/passwd
>
> Works for me every time.
> You could use another delimiter in your output instead of " " spaces.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> -*Sue*-
>
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