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From: als@roxanne.mlb.semi.harris.com (Alan Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: using /usr/bin/cut in scripts...
Keywords: cut, shell scripts
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.194800.11453@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 19:48:00 GMT
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In article <19253@well.sf.ca.us> whofan@well.sf.ca.us (Brian Lawrence Dear) writes:
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>The following is a portion of an installation script.  This portion
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>          gid=`/usr/bin/cut -f3 -d: /etc/group|sort -n|tail -1`
>          gid=`eval $gid + 1`
>          echo "mygroup::$gid:user1,user2,usern" >> /etc/group
> 
>Thing is, the /usr/bin/cut command is not available on everyone's
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>So.. my question is, is there an alternative to the script
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Might I suggest replacing the first line with:

	gid=`/bin/awk -F: '{print $3}' etc/group|sort -n|tail -1`