Re: [PLUG] XML, text, and the development of unix

[Alex Birch <kes@lifesabirch.org>]

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
<snip>

> to find out how many users have set bash as their login shell, I'm not
> sure how I could do that in a single line if /etc/passwd were
> /etc/passwd.xml.

What would happen if you did a grep "user" /etc/passwd.xml ?
considering the xml is like this:
<user name="foo" password="bar3134" group="superfoo" 
directory="/home/foo"> etc.

This would allow people to switch the order and include : in user names :-)

Cheers,
Alex



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