[ale] another scripting question

[Mike Fletcher]

>>>>> "Zhongbin" == Zhongbin Yu \"jerry\" <Zhongbin> writes:

    Zhongbin> cat /etc/passwd | cut -d ":" -f 1 
    Zhongbin> will do what you want.

        So will:

cut -d ":" -f 1 /etc/passwd
awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd
perl -F: -lane 'print $F[0]' /etc/passwd
perl -le 'print while ($_=getpwent)' 

        All without a useless use of cat.  And the last would also
show any YP/NIS accounts.

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