On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
..
> finger $1 | grep Name: | awk '{printf("%s",$4)}'
>
> but this can't handle spaces in the fullname which happens all the time. I
> cannot brute force a two-word name limitation, either.
Why not:
GECOS=`cat /etc/passwd | grep $USERNAME | cut -f5 -d:`
where USERNAME would hold the username you want?
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