you wrote:
>>>> script). Igor --
>>>
>>> $ u="Hannu";sed -nre "s/^$u.*:(.*):.*$/\1/p" </etc/passwd
>
> This works only because "/" is not a valid variable name. :-p
Ehm.. ;-P - could that be called a lucky shot?
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems --72-->
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