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Re: sendmail questions





I wrote:

> > 	cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '($2 > 100) {print $1}' >/etc/allusers


Gaal Yahas wrote:

> Join the Useless Use of cat Crazies! Rewrite that as
> 
> 	awk -F: '($3 > 100) {print $1}' < /etc/passwd > /etc/allusers
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I would NEVER suggest that to anyone. If they were to hit the wrong key,
as in "> /etc/passwd", they would really be in deep do-do.

Not that I've ever known anyone who would do that, nope, never, not me. :-)

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Tel:  (03) 6944-211  Fax: (03) 6944-225 Email: gsm@bfr.co.il 


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