Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???

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From: matthew green
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 00:00

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kimble@mistral.co.uk (Mark Sheppard) writes:

   tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen) wrote:
   >Of course, if's something awk DOESN'T do, than it's slightly easier to do them
   >in perl. :-)
   >
   >  # find first unused uid after 100, even with perl4
   >  perl -le '$i = 100; $i++ while ($x) = getpwuid($i); print $i'
   
   You can do this using gawk:
   
   gawk -F: '{u[$3]=$1;}END{for(i=100;u[i];i++);print(i);}' /etc/passwd

iguessyoucandothatifyoulike.

of course, it doesn't work if your getpwuid() doesn't actually have
anything to do with /etc/passwd.

.mrg.

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From: mrg@fulcrum.com.au (matthew green)
Subject: Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???
Date: 1995/05/12
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