Re: home directories...
Ah, yes. That's exactly what I want. Thank You!
-Brad
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Jim Foltz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 09:25:33PM -0700, Bradley Bell wrote:
> > I need to write a script which will run once a night, and check each
> > user's home directory for a certain file. Does anybody know the best way
> > to do this? The only thing I can think of is to parse /etc/passwd to get
> > the home dir of each user of UID > 999. Is this the correct way to do it?
> > What routines should one use when parsing /etc/passwd?
> >
> > -Brad
>
> Here is a snippet I used once. (It's perl)
>
> while (@list = getpwent()) {
> ($login, $grp, $name, $home) = @list[0, 3, 5, 7];
> # ... Do Something
> }
>
>
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