in reply to password file problem

Here's a one-liner:

perl -lne 'print (split(/:/))[0]' /etc/passwd

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Re^2: password file problem
by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 12, 2005 at 02:58 UTC
    perl -F: -lane 'print $F[0]' /etc/passwd
      I tried -lane, but I didn't know about -F. Thanks!