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Old 03-02-2011
List shell of specific account
Hi everyone. I am wondering how I would accomplish outputting the shell of a specific account on a single line of output. For example I would like to list the shell of 'news' as...

Code:
/bin/sh

providing its current shell is /bin/sh. This probably is a simple answer that I haven't been able to locate anywhere...

Thanks in advance for any help!
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Old 03-02-2011
Code:
grep '^news:' /etc/passwd | cut -f 7 -d:

Last edited by fpmurphy; 03-02-2011 at 11:58 PM..
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Old 03-02-2011
Code:
awk -F: '/^news/ { print $7 }' /etc/passwd

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