[CentOS] Determine next UID number

Wed Oct 13 20:22:57 UTC 2010
Terry Polzin <foxec208 at wowway.com>

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 20:09 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> > Is there an equivalent in CentOS?
> 
> cat /etc/passwd |cut -d ":" -f 3 |sort -n NEXTUID=`expr $LASTUID + 1`
> 
> ;)
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LASTUID=`cat /etc/passwd |grep -v nologin|cut -d ":" -f 3 |sort -n |
tail -1`; NEXTUID=`expr $LASTUID + 1`; echo $NEXTUID