Re: home directories...

[Bradley Bell <bradleyb@u.washington.edu>]

Yes, the idea is that it should work no matter where the home directories
are.  I guess I'll probably go the awk route, but I thought there might be
a more standard way of doing it.

Thanks!
-Brad

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> Bradley Bell wrote:
>   >I need to write a script which will run once a night, and check each
>   >user's home directory for a certain file.  Does anybody know the best way
>   >to do this?  The only thing I can think of is to parse /etc/passwd to get
>   >the home dir of each user of UID > 999. Is this the correct way to do it?
>  
> If all your home directories are in /home/<username> you would not need
> to parse /etc/passwd; just do "cd /home; for f in `ls`; do ...; done"
> 
>   >What routines should one use when parsing /etc/passwd?
>  
> awk -F: '{if ($3 > 999) print $1}' </etc/passwd
> 
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