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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Code explanation? Post 302582909 by kotsos13 on Monday 19th of December 2011 03:28:42 AM
Old 12-19-2011
Thank you very much for your help!I will try to learn it now!And you are right!The person who wrote this is completely insaneSmilie!In three hours he taught us the grep,sort,tr and sed command(not cut)!I dont know how can i learn this code with 3 hours of lesson,because i see these things for first time!Anyway if i have any more questions i will post here to help me again Smilie

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As i said before he didn't taught us the cut command and now i have to learn the code without cut Smilie
In this command how do i understand pulling out only the username and the uid?
Code:
| sed '1,$s/^\([^:]*\):[^:]*:\([^:]*\):.*$/ \1 \2 /'

As i know according to this
Code:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-etcpasswd-file-format/

the username is on the first field and the uid on the third,but i can't understand nothing on this code!Could you explain it without the cut command?
 

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   in_gladiator($code)
       Run the given code using Devel::Gladiator.

   repo_path_for($username)
       Returns a path on disk for where $username's replica is stored.

   repo_uri_for($username)
       Returns a file:// URI for $USERNAME'S replica (with the correct replica type prefix).

   replica_uuid
       Returns the UUID of the test replica.

   database_uuid
       Returns the UUID of the test database.

   replica_last_rev
       Returns the sequence number of the last change in the test replica.

   as_user($username, $coderef)
       Run this code block as $username.  This routine sets up the %ENV hash so that when we go looking for a repository, we get the user's repo.

   replica_uuid_for($username)
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   ok_added_revisions( { CODE }, $numbers_of_new_revisions, $msg)
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	   records => { 'record_uuid' =>
			  { change_type => 'type',
			    props => { propchange_name => { source_old => 'old_val',
							    source_new => 'new_val',
							    target_old => 'target_val',
							  }
				     }
			  },
			'another_record_uuid' =>
			  { change_type => 'type',
			    props => { propchange_name => { source_old => 'old_val',
							    source_new => 'new_val',
							    target_old => 'target_val',
							  }
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