[ale] Read multiple variables

[leam hall]

Now that's pretty cool. My awk is a bit rusty, did not know that. Not
surprised that awk can do it, just didn't know how.

Leam


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:

> I bet you know already, but for completeness I guess it's worth mentioning
> that awk can do it all, from the grep part to the while loop.
>
> [ecashin at herlihy ~]$ awk -vuser=ecashin -F: '$1==user{print "U is " $1 ",
> G is " $4 ", and it\x27s " $5}' /etc/passwd
> U is ecashin, G is 1000, and it's Ed Cashin
> [ecashin at herlihy ~]$
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:35 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, I used to know how to do this. Trying to get multiple variables set
>> in one line:
>>
>> while read UID GID COMMENT
>> do
>>  echo UID is $UID, GID is $GID, and it's $COMMENT"
>> done < grep person /etc/passwd | awk -F":" '{ print $3, $4, $5 }'
>>
>> Does not work well at all. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Leam
>>
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