bash script on FreeBSD

[Frank Shute]

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 


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