in reply to printing passwd file

# cli: perl -pne 's/(.+?):.+/user_$. $1_$./' /etc/passwd # or from file: #!/usr/bin/perl -np s/(.+?):.+/user_$. $1_$./
Update: instead of "username_1 name_1" format you may want "username_1 name"
in which case substitute $1 for $1_$..