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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Question about awk commands Post 302370532 by ghostdog74 on Wednesday 11th of November 2009 06:34:01 PM
Old 11-11-2009
that means its a messily written code with a lot of redundant process and useless cat
Code:
awk -F":" '
{
   m=split($5,a,",")
   print tolower(a[1])
}
' /etc/passwd

 

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TOLOWER(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						TOLOWER(3)

NAME
tolower -- upper case to lower case letter conversion LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <ctype.h> int tolower(int c); DESCRIPTION
The tolower() function converts an upper-case letter to the corresponding lower-case letter. RETURN VALUES
If the argument is an upper-case letter, the tolower() function returns the corresponding lower-case letter if there is one; otherwise the argument is returned unchanged. SEE ALSO
ctype(3), isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isascii(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3), isxdigit(3), stdio(3), toascii(3), toupper(3), ascii(7) STANDARDS
The tolower() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89''). CAVEATS
The argument to tolower() must be EOF or representable as an unsigned char; otherwise, the behavior is undefined. See the CAVEATS section of ctype(3) for more details. BSD
April 17, 2008 BSD
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