migrating system files (info)

[Brad De Vries]

Thanks for going Off Topic on this, my head was
starting to hurt from reading the other posts.  I
think it might have been withdrawl symptoms.

Anyway, to pass assignmment values into an awk script,
use the -v option:

for i in `awk -F: ' ($3 > 99) && ($3 < 65530) { print
$1}' /etc/passwd`;
do
  awk -F: -v name=$i '$1 == name {print $0}'
/etc/gshadow >> /tmp/gshadow
  awk -F: -v name=$i '$1 == name {print $0}'
/etc/group   >> /tmp/group
  awk -F: -v name=$i '$1 == name {print $0}'
/etc/shadow  >> /tmp/shadow
done

HTH,
Brad.
--- Keith Morse <kgmorse at mpcu.com> wrote:
> 
> Admittedly, this message isn't about self
> gratification, mental or 
> physical. Nor does it deride SCO, Microsoft, or any
> other targets we like 
> to detest.  Hence it may be considered Off Topic. 
> But what the hell, I'll 
> test the waters.
> 
> 
> Thiw is somewhat a followup to Michael Hipp's
> question about password 
> issues when migrating to a new server.  To support
> this effort, I spent 
> that last few hours beating my head against the wall
> trying to figure out 
> how to pass command line variables to awk and then
> use it to pattern 
> match.
> 
> 
> awk -F: ' ($3 > 99) && ($3 < 65530) { print $1}'
> /etc/passwd > passwd
> 
> for i in `awk -F: ' ($3 > 99) && ($3 < 65530) {
> print $1}' /etc/passwd`; 
> do 
>   awk -F:  '$1 == name {print $0 }' name=$i
> /etc/gshadow
> done >> gshadow
> 
> 
> for i in `awk -F: ' ($3 > 99) && ($3 < 65530) {
> print $1}' /etc/passwd`;  
> do 
>   awk -F:  '$1 == name {print $0 }' name=$i
> /etc/group
> done >> group
> 
> 
> for i in `awk -F: ' ($3 > 99) && ($3 < 65530) {
> print $1}' /etc/passwd`;
> do
>   awk -F:  '$1 == name {print $0 }' name=$i
> /etc/shadow
> done >> shadow


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