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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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