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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating an entry for /etc/passwd Post 40287 by butterfm on Friday 12th of September 2003 07:40:11 AM
Old 09-12-2003
This will give you what you want as far as the username is concerned :

awk -F, '{print tolower(substr($1,0,1)) tolower(substr($1,match($1," ")+1,7))}' file1

Where file1 contains

John Doe,users,/bin/sh

I have assumed that you want the username to be all lowercase i.e. jdoe and not jDoe.

The rest of the entry in the /etc/password file could also be added to the awk script.

The -F flag is the field seperator in your source file
$1, $2 ... etc represent columns 1, 2 respectively.

It can aslo be done fairly easily in shell script using while and read as Perderabo pointed out. It's really down to personal preferance.
If you want to do it that way take a look at the "cut" man page or even use a combination of shell script and awk.

Hope this gives you an idea of how you can approach the problem.

Matt.
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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