Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:09:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Brandon Lockhart <brandon@engulf.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Getting the users out of /etc/passwd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980728210752.11107A-100000@engulf.net>
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I want to make a cron script to take all the users out of the password
file, (only the first field), and ignore the first 13. I can take them
out by either using AWK or CUT, for example.
cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd
-or-
awk -F: '{print $1}'
but, how do I ignore the first 13 lines of output?
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