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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

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