Re: printing passwd file

If you want a one-liner:

perl -lne 'print ((split /:/)[0])' /etc/passwd
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I noticed that you specified that the output should contain the user name as well as the name, but your code only displayed the user name. If you need both:

perl -lne 'print ((split /:/)[0] . " " . (split /:/)[4])' /etc/passwd
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Re^2: printing passwd file by ambrus (Abbot) on Mar 14, 2005 at 17:53 UTC
You can also use this: `perl -wlne 'print join " ", (split /:/)[0, 4]' /etc/passwd` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: printing passwd file by halley (Prior) on Mar 14, 2005 at 18:09 UTC
And arbitrarily playing golf: `perl -lne 'print "@{[(split /:/)[0, 4]]}"' /etc/passwd` [download] Or particularly well suited to -a and -F: `perl -F: -lane 'print "@F[0, 4]"' /etc/passwd` [download] -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: printing passwd file by ambrus (Abbot) on Mar 14, 2005 at 18:28 UTC
Well, if you want to play golf, you can even leave out the spaces: `perl -F: -lane 'print "@F[0, 4]"' /etc/passwd` [download] or leave out perl completely: `cut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd\|tr : \` [download] of which the end reminds me to this classic error message: `$ \(- -bash: (-: command not found` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]