<div dir="ltr">Ah...<br><br>grep person /etc/passwd | awk -F":" '{ print $3, $4, $5 }' |while read U G C<br>do<br> echo U is $U, G is $G, and it's $C"<br>
done</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:35 AM, leam hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Well, I used to know how to do this. Trying to get multiple variables set in one line:<br>
<br></div>while read UID GID COMMENT<br></div>do<br></div> echo UID is $UID, GID is $GID, and it's $COMMENT"<br>
</div>done < grep person /etc/passwd | awk -F":" '{ print $3, $4, $5 }'<br><br></div>Does not work well at all. Any ideas?<br><br></div>Thanks!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Leam<br clear="all">
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