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Operating Systems AIX Simple Script question Post 302538984 by bakunin on Thursday 14th of July 2011 06:20:58 PM

07-14-2011

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Quote:

Originally Posted by audis$

Code:

pwdadm -q Username | grep lastupdate

[once i have this i then convert using]

Code:

perl -le 'print scalar localtime shift'

In fact you do quite the same in a script. The following is a sketch which can perhaps be refined once we know a bit more about your environment, but it is a place to start. Save the following to a file (replace "<spc>" and "<tab>" with literal space/tab characters) and call it by "/path/to/script /path/to/inputfile":

Code:

#! /bin/ksh
# This script reads a list of usernames from a file and applies your command

typeset fIn="$1"
typeset chUser=""

cat "$fIn" | sed 's/#.*$//;s/^[<spc><tab>][<spc><tab>]*//;s/[<spc><tab>][<spc><tab>]*$//;/^$/d' |\
while read chUser ; do
     pwdadm -q "$chUser" | grep lastupdate | perl -le 'print scalar localtime shift'
done

exit 0

The input file should have one username in a line, comments and empty lines are possible. The sed-command just filters out white space and these comments, the rest is straight-forward.

I hope this helps.

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