On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, eric pareja wrote:
>
> > GECOS=`cat /etc/passwd | grep ^$USERNAME | cut -f5 -d: | cut -f1 -d,`
>
> Funny, I'd use
>
> GECOS=`grep ^$USERNAME: /etc/passwd | cut -f5 -d: | cut -f1 -d,`
>
> but then again, I'm just lazy. =)
yes, the ":" makes it narrow the hits to just the particular $USERNAME in
question. otherwise, it would return all occurences of
$USERNAME+somestring in the /etc/passwd file. i was lazy to touch up that
line further. aren't we all? jijo is smart and knows he can skin the cat
more ways than one. he'll figure it out.
he also has to remember to standardize his GECOS entries if he knows
what's good for him.
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