Re: [Sheflug] skel

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Mr. Adam ALLEN" uttered these words of wisdom:
>
> cat /etc/shadow | grep "^$user" | awk -F: {'print $1":"$2'}
>       > $homedir/.htpasswd
>

Caution ... in the interests of sanity, change the grep pattern to use:

      grep "^$user:"

ie, a trailing colon, as otherwise when grep tries to do match the
username bob, it will pull back bob, bobby, bobs, bobbob, etc ... :)

Alternatively, drop the grep and do it all with awk:

      awk -F: -vU=$user '$1==U { print $1":"$2 }'

or:

      awk -F: -vU=$user -vOFS=: '$1==U { print $1,$2 }'

Chris...

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