Hey all,

I have a little issue im trying to work out...

In SAM, if you goto accounts for users and groups > users , then goto
file, and print to a text file..

Is there a way you can do this on the command line by using grep, sed,
awk, etc to grab the same information in the same format, from the
passwd file?

I am required to print this info to a text file every day, and if i
could do it thru cron, itd make my job much easier :-)

thanks!

In article <1158807535.258913.316550@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>, thesoulcrusher wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have a little issue im trying to work out...
>
> In SAM, if you goto accounts for users and groups > users , then goto
> file, and print to a text file..
>
> Is there a way you can do this on the command line by using grep, sed,
> awk, etc to grab the same information in the same format, from the
> passwd file?
>
> I am required to print this info to a text file every day, and if i
> could do it thru cron, itd make my job much easier :-)

How about this:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

cat <<EOF
Login User ID Primary Office Office
Name (UID) Real Name Group Phone Location
EOF

OldIFS="$IFS"

while read line
do
IFS=":"

set -o noglob
set -- $line
user=$1 uid=$3 gid=$4 gecos=$5

if [[ ! -z "$gid" ]]
then
set -- $(grget -g $gid)
group=$1
fi

IFS=","
set -- $gecos
name=$1 office=$2 phone=$3
IFS="$OldIFS"

printf "%-8s %-8d %-39s %-8s %-10s %s\n" "$user" "$uid" "$name" "$group" "$phone" "$office"

done </etc/passwd

IFS="$OldIFS"

It should be pretty close...

Kevin

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