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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What is the command to get name associated with userid? Post 302376712 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 2nd of December 2009 05:36:04 AM
Old 12-02-2009
one way:
Code:
awk -v uid=123 '$3==uid {print $1}' /etc/passwd

 

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MAKE_MD5(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       MAKE_MD5(8)

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NAME
make_md5 - Generate MD5 checksums for given set of users. SYNOPSIS
make_md5 [ -C config-file ] [ -D md5_dir ] [ -k count ] [ -f input_file ] [ -m offset ] [ -M modulo ] [ -v ] [ userid... ] DESCRIPTION
Generate MD5 checksums for messages given set of users. Works as incremental update: reads in existing set of MD5 checksums from md5_dir/u/userid (hashed on first letter of userid) if that file exists. Scans account looking for new messages, and then updates record. The MD5 checksums which are generated are used to test integrity of the master, replica and backup systems on Hermes. OPTIONS
-C config-file Read configuration options from config-file. -D md5_dir Read and write MD5 checksums from md5_dir, overrides configuration file setting of the same name. -k count Concurrency level: run up to count asynchronous child processes. -f input_file List of accounts to process: use in place of command line arguments. -m offset Regenerate given fraction of the user database in combination with -M below. -M modulo Regenerate MD5 checksums for given fraction of user database. Allows for rolling consisency checks. -v Verbose mode. FILES
/etc/imapd.conf AUTHORS
David Carter (dpc22@cam.ac.uk) CMU
Project Cyrus MAKE_MD5(8)
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