hi Jspradling84,

..i have a question i was wondering if someone can help me with i had written a bash script that count how many people are using each shell..

May be you want to look at getpwent in perl.

Something like this should do:

use warnings;
use strict;

my %shell;

while ( my ($ui) = ( getpwent() )[8] ) {
    $shell{$ui}++;
}

print $shell{$_}, ' person(s) uses ', $_, $/ for keys %shell;
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