check_old_logins.sh

[harry d brown jr]

Isn't the "-q" (dash-queue) option a GNU grep thing?

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harry

[John Poff]

Harry,

The '-q' option for grep is valid for HP-UX also. It tells grep to run quietly. Here is part of the 'grep' man page (11.00):

-q (Quiet) Do not write anything to the standard output, regardless of matching lines. Exit with zero status upon finding the first matching line. Overrides any options that would produce output.


What I'm trying to figure out about this script is why they use 'more' on the /etc/passwd file to pipe to a grep command:

DEPT=$(more /etc/passwd | grep ^$USER: |cut -d: -f5 | cut -d"," -f3)

When you could just do something like this?:

DEPT=$(grep '^$USER:' /etc/passwd|cut -d: -f5 | cut -d"," -f3)

JP

[leereg_6]

Hi,
I am in a mixed network with both SOLARIS and HP-UX, and my NIS master is solaris 2.6, does the script work yet? How does it realize across my NIS enviroment?


Thanks!