On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 04:27 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 02:56 -0600, Sean Carolan wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I'm doing an audit of some Linux machines, and have used this awk
> > one-liner to find accounts with uid > 499:
> >
> > awk -F: '{if ($3 > 499) print $0}' < /etc/passwd
> >
> > It works great if you run it on a host directly, but if I try to ssh
> > to a remote host and run the command it fails:
> >
> ssh servername awk -F: "'{if (\$3 > 499) print \$0}'" < /etc/passwd
ssh servername awk -F: "'{if (\$3 > 499) print \$0}' < /etc/passwd"
otherwise '< /etc/passwd' happens on the client.
Jim