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Q
Erez Doron writes:
> Hi
>
> does anybody knows of a unix command that
> checks if a there is such a user on the system ?
>
> i meen that I'll ask if there is a username 'yossi' or 'moshe'
> on this host, and I'll get an answer
>
> ( do not tell me 'finger', this requires a daemon )
>
> regards
> Erez.
>
>
1) awk -F: '$1 == "yossi"' /etc/passwd
2) egrep "^moshe" /etc/passwd
Oleg Goldshmidt
goldshmt@netvision.net.il
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- From: Erez Doron <erez@savan.com>