On 12/23/2014 05:19 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> and just for grins, try
> man awk... 2032 lines... and the example shows:
You're complaining that awk has documentation?
oh no! that just means there are
lots of options, arguements.....
complex command:)
> EXAMPLES
> Print and sort the login names of all users:
> BEGIN { FS = ":" }
> { print $1 | "sort" }
>
> um, so, how does awk work there??
That is an example awk program. I would expect to feed it the
/etc/passwd file as input.
I would usually grep password, looking for a specific
name... nice to
have a sorted list though.
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