Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:58:16 -0500 From: Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting a user's home dir (sed/awk?) Message-ID: <4443C928.5040004@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4443C6D6.3040707@locolomo.org> References: <4443C6D6.3040707@locolomo.org>
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Erik Norgaard wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I am trying to create a script, the idea is to host a number of web
>services, each running as a different process owned by a different user
>bound to a non privileged port on localhost. The point is that each
>service can be restarted without affecting other services and that any
>security compromise does not propagate to other services.
>
>Now, to start all servers I want to create a master script that looks up
>the user's home directory and runs a script in a predefined path.
>
>So the question is: given a username, how do I get the homedir?
>
>I have found "pw usershow user1" will return a line from the passwd
>file, but that needs to be split chewed, and spit out. Seems awk can do
>it but I have no clue.
>
>Thanks, Erik
>
>PS: Yes, I know, I could just create a perl script - but this time I
>want to do it all using the tools in base.
>
>
Erik;
How 'bout something like;
pw usershow user1 | awk -F: ' { print $9 } '
Patrick
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