Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!botter!ark.cs.vu.nl!maart From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: csh :t modifier (Was Re: basename(1) (Was Re:argv[0] in shellscript?)) Message-ID: <1311@ark.cs.vu.nl> Date: 27 Jun 88 13:53:26 GMT References: <3680037@eecs.nwu.edu> <1813@stpstn.UUCP> <709@ubu.warwick.UUCP> Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 12 In article <709@ubu.warwick.UUCP> maujd@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer) writes: \cat /etc/passwd | sed "s/:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:/ /" | sed "s/[,:].*//" | sort \ ^^TAB^^ \--------------------------------------------------------------------- \ (BTW, anyone got any improvements on this 'sed' line?) How about: sed 's/:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^,:]*\).*/ \1/' /etc/passwd | sort -- I'd rather live in Russia |Maarten Litmaath @ Free U Amsterdam: than in South-Africa... |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!ark!maart