[TriLUG] possible awk/grep question

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Rodney Radford wrote:

>
> This should work for you:
>
> ssh $machine cat /etc/passwd | (while read USR F2 F3 GID F5; do
>       if [ $GID -eq 100 ]; then
>               echo $USR
>       fi
> done)

On thinking about Brian's change of syntax I found this 
worked

ssh $machine cat /etc/passwd | while read line
do
         echo $line
done

which is exactly your construction.

any idea why I can't get the original version to work?

Thanks Joe

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