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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: awk and shell question
Summary: Use ypmatch, not ypcat | grep
Keywords: awk sh
Message-ID: <902@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 19 Sep 89 18:37:38 GMT
References: <1163@ispi.UUCP> <2412@netcom.UUCP> <2130@munnari.oz.au>
Organization: OMNI Solutions, Mountain View, CA
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In article <2130@munnari.oz.au>, ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
> Again, watch out for Yellow Pages; if you're using that you have to do
> 	ypcat passwd | grep "^${LOGNAME}" | what-ever-you-want-here

I hate to see this kind of inefficiency advertised.  Use
	ypmatch $LOGNAME passwd | whatever
instead.

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