Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:57:58 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help w/ Awk Message-ID: <20010516115758.L26110@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <MOBBIPGJKBNNPGLGMFHFIEIBHCAA.don@whtech.com>; from don@whtech.com on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:09:34PM -0700 References: <MOBBIPGJKBNNPGLGMFHFIEIBHCAA.don@whtech.com>
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:09:34PM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote:
> 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;
Why not just use this:
awk -F: '{print $1 " " $3 " " $4}' < /etc/passwd
Works for me every time.
You could use another delimiter in your output instead of " " spaces.
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Regards,
-*Sue*-
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