Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:22:45 +0700 From: Kalpin Erlangga Silaen <kalpin@muliahost.com> To: Kalpin Erlangga Silaen <kalpin@muliahost.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash script on FreeBSD Message-ID: <48EC5FC5.7030103@muliahost.com> In-Reply-To: <20081008072121.GB94922@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <48EC410C.2030707@muliahost.com> <20081008071156.GA94922@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20081008072121.GB94922@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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Dear Frank, you are correct. Finally, I write my script using awk. Thank you Kalpin Erlangga Silaen Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:11:56AM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:11:40PM +0700, Kalpin Erlangga Silaen wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I am going to extract field username and UID from /etc/passwd and passed >>> into some scripts. Let say I got line >>> >>> admin 100 >>> admin2 200 >>> admin3 300 >>> admin4 400 >>> >>> and then I want to echoing into screen: >>> >>> admin has uid 100 >>> admin2 has uid 200 >>> admin3 has uid 300 >>> admin4 has uid 400 >>> >>> How do I make this with bash script? >>> >>> Thank you >>> >>> >>> Kalpin Erlangga Silaen >>> >> $ sed -e 's/\(admin[0-9]*\)\ \([0-9]*\)/\1 has uid \2/g' /etc/passwd >> >> > > Correction: You can't use that on /etc/passwd directly. But assuming > you've got a file already in the format you specified, then you can > use it on that. > > If you want to grab the data directly from /etc/passwd then you'd be > better off using awk(1). > > Regards, > >
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