Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 09:50:36 +0100 From: Terje Thoegersen <Terje.Thogersen@hda.hydro.com> To: ram@mail.bw.lgca.ohio.gov Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Info...PLEASE :-) Message-ID: <199511290850.AAvkhdib01106495@hda.hydro.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.951128104512.580A-100000@mail.bw.lgca.ohio.gov> (message from Ronald Matuszak on Tue, 28 Nov 1995 10:53:09 %2B0000 ())
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> A few questions.. We are running FreeBSD 2.1.0. We are in the process
> of making many accounts. We are using a home brew make user script. All
> was well until we had about 126 accounts in a single group ID.
>
> Our question is......Is there a limit to the number of characters in a
> single line in the etc/group file?? We made another group ID # and it
> worked. However, we were wondering if there was a way to get all of these
> accounts in a single group?
Try creating two groups with the same GID, putting half of the users
in each. Never tried it on FreeBSD, but it works under SVR3.2.
>
> Also, for general knowledge, is there a command to count the number of
> characters in a line of standard input (Through piping, etc.)
>
> Finally, I was wondering if you could direct me in creating functions for
> sh scripts. What format is required for this?
Two birds with one stone :
#!/bin/sh
LINE=`cat`
Countem () {
NUMCHARS=`echo $1 | wc -c`
echo "There are $NUMCHARS characters in the stdin\n$1"
}
Countem "$LINE"
-Terje
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