On Wednesday 15 August 2012 20:53:33 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Tony Molloy wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 August 2012 19:46:42 Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> > > > > wrote: > >> >> ]$ cat testcentoslist | egrep ^m.*:.*:.*:850: > >> >> m9718308:pw:9301:850: Lynch :/home/pgstud/m9718508:/bin/bash > >> > > >> > Exactly what I needed. I'll just drop the cat as a later > >> > poster pointed out. > >> > >> sed -n -e '/pattern/p' can match anything grep would do and > >> might be even more useful if you want substitutions for > >> subsequent use. And of course perl can do anything sed can do, > >> and then some... > > > > True true, and of course C could do anything and everything ;-) > > > > But all I need is a simple script which will be run once a year > > to remove the graduated students from the password file. > > Ah, but are you sure they're not just dropped out for a term, or > about to become indentured servants, er, grad students? In that > case, maybe just change their login shell to /bin/noLogin > > mark > No these are 4th year graduated students. If they stay on as post graduate students they have to re-register. So clean them out I say ;-) Tony > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >