Re^3: printing passwd file

And arbitrarily playing golf:

perl -lne 'print "@{[(split /:/)[0, 4]]}"' /etc/passwd
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Or particularly well suited to -a and -F:

perl -F: -lane 'print "@F[0, 4]"' /etc/passwd
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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]