[TriLUG] Scripting question

[Janyne Kizer]

Now I wish that I had posted sooner.  I think that I have it working
now.  Isn't that always the case?  Right after I ask for help I have an
"ah ha!" moment...

homedir=`grep "\<$userid\>" /etc/passwd | awk -F":"  {'print $6'}`

Thanks for listening!

Janyne Kizer wrote:
> 
> I am trying to get a list of home directories for regular users in a
> script.  The problem that I am running into is we have some cases where
> users with similar IDs are on the system.  For example, sa, saclark and
> sange or edware and dware.  On our test system we have emma and emma60.
> Anyway, I am trying to do something similar to this:
> 
> for userid in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F":" {'print $1'} | grep -xv
> "^the-stuff-we-don't-want"
> homedir=`grep $userid /etc/passwd | awk -F":"  {'print $6'}`
> 
> and of course it is returning two homedirs for emma (/home/emma and
> /home/emma60).  How can I get it to do an exact match?  From the command
> line this works:
> 
> grep '\<emma\>' /etc/passwd
> 
> but I must be doing something wrong with the escaping when I put it into
> a script.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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> 
> Janyne Kizer
> Systems Programmer Administrator
> NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
> Extension Information Technology
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Janyne Kizer
Systems Programmer Administrator
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension Information Technology