[TriLUG] possible awk/grep question

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Craig Taylor wrote:

> As with anything else in Linux, there's a million ways...
>
> for USR in `cat /etc/group | grep ^user | sed "s/^.*:100://" | sed "s/,/
> /g"`; do
>    echo $USR
> done

Hi Craig,

thanks for the suggestion

 	Having thought about this for a week or so now, and 
not having an answer, after posting here, I googled and came 
up with

cat /etc/passwd | awk 'BEGIN { FS = ":" } $4 == "100" {print}'

I didn't know about the

$4 == "100"

construct

Joe

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