[TriLUG] Scripting question

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 16:37, Stephen P. Schaefer wrote:
> userid="emma"
> awk -F":" "/^$userid/ { print \$6 }" /etc/passwd

This will still give you all users that begin with emma.  She said:

> and of course it is returning two homedirs for emma (/home/emma and
> /home/emma60).  How can I get it to do an exact match?

I think you would need to add a : after userid like this:

awk -F":" "/^$userid:/ { print \$6 }" /etc/passwd

That would make sure it was an exact match.  (If anyone sees anything
wrong with that, please speak up.  I'm by no means an awk expert. :)

Cheers,
Tanner
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