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Chris Bitmead (chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au) wrote:
: In article <3o2k4j$sv7@pipe.pipex.net> tim@pipex.net (Tim Goodwin) writes:

: >In article <3nsibr$879@kimble.mistral.co.uk>,
: >Mark Sheppard <kimble@mistral.co.uk> wrote:
: >>>  # find first unused uid after 100, even with perl4
: >>>  perl -le '$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
: >
: >The awk script doesn't work if you're using NIS, or in general when
: >/etc/passwd doesn't contain every uid.

: ypcat passwd | gawk -F: '{u[$3]=$1;}END{for(i=100;u[i];i++);print(i);}'

I don't know how portable it is,  but under HP-UX,  pwget works.

pwget | | gawk -F: '{u[$3]=$1;}END{for(i=100;u[i];i++);print(i);}'

I know,  cause we just put up yp and I had to rewrite a bunch of awk
scripts.

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: Chris Bitmead
: chrisb@ind.tansu.com.au

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