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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
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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
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