Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 20:24:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com> To: don@whtech.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help w/ Awk Message-ID: <200105160124.UAA18584@MPI-Softtech.Com>
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read man for awk... look for field separator... :)
have a nice day.
Dave
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>From: "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com>
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>Subject: Help w/ Awk
>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:09:34 -0700
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>I'm trying to write a simple script to extract the user name, UID and GID of
>each user in the /etc/passwd file and I'm not quite sure what I'm doing
>wrong here.... here's a code snippet;
>
>#!/bin/sh
>passwd=`cat /etc/passwd`
>
>for user in $passwd
>
>do
>
>username=`echo $user | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" } END { print $1 }'`
>
>echo $username
>
>done
>
>
>Where am I going wrong with awk? Sometime the result of $username is the
>user name, but sometimes its another part of the entry in the file. I just
>want the user name stuck into username.
>
>Thanks!
>
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