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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:27:15 +0200
From: "Svein Halvor Halvorsen" <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
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Subject: Re: getting a user's home dir (sed/awk?)
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On 4/17/06, Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote:
> 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.

cut is probably about the cheapest way to split a line:

pw usershow user1 | cut -d: -f9


Svein Halvor