[ale] another scripting question

[esoteric at denali.atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

Zhongbin Yu \"jerry\" wrote:
> 
> cat /etc/passwd | cut -d ":" -f 1
> will do what you want.

You know you really don't want to pipe unless you have to.  It's another
process, so:

cut -d ":" -f1 /etc/passwd

do the same.

So will:

awk -F':' '{print $1}' /etc/passwd

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