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

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From: Tim Goodwin
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 00:00

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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.

Tim.
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From: tim@pipex.net (Tim Goodwin)
Subject: Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???
Date: 1995/05/01
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