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From: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: data bases such as /etc/passwd
Message-ID: <226@luke.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 14:55:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: luke.226
Posted: Sun Jun 16 14:55:00 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Jun-85 09:20:34 EDT
References: <448@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <298@bdaemon.UUCP>
Reply-To: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
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Summary: 

In article <298@bdaemon.UUCP> carl@bdaemon.UUCP (carl) writes:
>> 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
 ^^^^?

How about:

	grep "^key" file | awk -F: '{print $n}'

Good advice is only good if it's accurate.
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