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Re: [PLUG] check for existing user
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grep $1 /etc/passwd
You can also read up a little on awk and it may show you a way to cut out
all of the garbage that it sends in the /etc/passwd file.
--
-Rune
In a display of perverse brilliance, Carl the repairman mistakes a room
humidifier for a mid-range computer but manages to tie it into the network
anyway.
-- The 5th Wave
it's the same old story; boy meets beer, boy drinks beer... boy gets another beer.
-- Cheers
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Michelle Weber wrote:
:Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 10:16:20 -0500 (EST)
:From: Michelle Weber <umweber@mcs.drexel.edu>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: [PLUG] check for existing user
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:What would be the easiest way to check for an existing user with a shell
:script? So that if it does exist i can do one thing, and if it doesn't i
:can do another?
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:Thanks,
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