On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:47:38AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> Any easy way to create the file would be
>
> cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '($2 > 100) {print $1}' >/etc/allusers
>
> This will ignore root, bin, etc.
Join the Useless Use of cat Crazies! Rewrite that as
awk -F: '($3 > 100) {print $1}' < /etc/passwd > /etc/allusers
(note field #2 is the password)
Err. Waitaminute!!! I'm supposed be advocating Perl:
perl -lne '/^(.*?):.*?:(\d+)/&&$2>100&&print$1' /etc/passwd
> /etc/allusers
Darn. Longer :-|
Well, as Larry Wall put it, "AWK has to be better for something :-)"
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