Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:28:29 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Brandon Lockhart <brandon@engulf.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting the users out of /etc/passwd Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.02.9807291627440.17021-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980728210752.11107A-100000@engulf.net>
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Brandon Lockhart wrote:
> 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?
cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd | tail -n +14
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