On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:11:56AM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:11:40PM +0700, Kalpin Erlangga Silaen wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I am going to extract field username and UID from /etc/passwd and passed > > into some scripts. Let say I got line > > > > admin 100 > > admin2 200 > > admin3 300 > > admin4 400 > > > > and then I want to echoing into screen: > > > > admin has uid 100 > > admin2 has uid 200 > > admin3 has uid 300 > > admin4 has uid 400 > > > > How do I make this with bash script? > > > > Thank you > > > > > > Kalpin Erlangga Silaen > > $ sed -e 's/\(admin[0-9]*\)\ \([0-9]*\)/\1 has uid \2/g' /etc/passwd >
Correction: You can't use that on /etc/passwd directly. But assuming you've got a file already in the format you specified, then you can use it on that. If you want to grab the data directly from /etc/passwd then you'd be better off using awk(1). Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"