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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat How to list shell of account? Post 302485234 by austinharris43 on Tuesday 4th of January 2011 03:36:43 PM
Old 01-04-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
One way to look up the login shell of the account "news":

Code:
awk -F: '{if ($1==name) {print $7; exit}}' name=news /etc/passwd

This works perfectly, thanks!
 

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