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Peter da Silva <peter@abbnm.com> wrote:
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| Rob Warnock <rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
| > Sheesh! Hey, c'mon, Peter, you know better than that:
| > 	egrep /sbin/nologin /etc/passwd | sed -e 's/:.*$//'
| > And it's even fewer characters to type than the Perl version!!  ;-}  ;-}
| 
| What Perl version? I haven't given a Perl version.
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Sorry, I guess I mis-read your article <URL:news:91eafr$3u7@web.nmti.com>
that started this whole sub-thread, where you said:

	Because you can write two lines of Perl and have a program that
	does something useful on just about any popular OS widely used today.
	Provide a "lispscript" tool that lets you write, oh:
            awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"}; $6=="/sbin/nologin" {print $1}' /etc/passwd

and not being very fluent in Perl myself, I assumed that you were using
some "awk" sub-command of Perl and not the old Unix command-line Awk
program (since obsoleting Awk is one of Perl's main claims to fame).

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| And what happens if someone's GCOS name is /sbin/nologin? Try:
|  	egrep ":/sbin/nologin$" /etc/passwd | sed -e 's/:.*$//'
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Thanks for the bug fix.

But even with the fix, it's *still* shorter than the Awk version.
And not only that, it works regardless of how many fields (7 or 8)
the passwd file contains (as someone else was worrying about).


-Rob

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