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From: carl@bdaemon.UUCP (carl)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: data bases such as /etc/passwd
Message-ID: <298@bdaemon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 10:44:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 13 10:44:12 1985
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> I am working on a program which will have a data base similar to /etc/passwd
> or /etc/inittab.  Are there any libraries which support these type of files?
> Specifically, I would like to be able to search for a record based on a
> certain key, and ask for the nth field in that record.

Why not:

	grep key file | awk -F: 'print $n'

where $n is the nth field?

Cral Brandauer