Am Sa, den 17.07.2004 schrieb Ow Mun Heng um 22:03:
> > How about using the IFS variable for this ?
> > set IFS to ':' and run a for...done loop over each line of the input file.
>
> I'm not sure how that can be used.
>
> One other thing which I found is that by using awk, I'm actually
> processing the file all at once. (as the awk code above shows). I'm not
> sure how I can get BASH to actually process it line-per-line like tcsh's
> foreach.
>
> Maybe I can learn up on using awk's $NR variable, to get it to
> auto-increment so that I read it line-by-line and process it that way.
>
> Right now, my random password generator function is making the _same_
> default password for _all_ users. That's Not too great.
cat /etc/passwd | while read line; do
whatever ...
done
Sorry, I don't really understand what you want to do with the content of
the password file. Maybe you can explain your target a bit more.
Alexander
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