string manipulatoin

[Unix Administrator_5]

I am using command substitution to obtain a user's distinguished name. In the command I have tried awk and cut just to get a portion of the dn. I recieve a correct string if under 75 characters, if 75 or more then the string with awk is dropped at that point or with cut there is a space and the 73 and 74 cahracter is repeated and the rest of the string is returned. Is there a work around to this?

[Marco Paganini]

Hello,

Could you please post the actual data and the program/shell script here for us to take a look?

Regards,
Paga

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi:

You don't mention what OS version you are running but most awk's have at least a 1024 characters/field limit so you should have no problem using split or substr.

I can absolutely assure that perl can handle this.

[Darrell Allen]

Hi,

How about using:
awk -F: '/userid/ {print $5}' /etc/passwd | awk -F, '{print $1}'

The second awk strips off the location and phone stuff from the gcos field.

Darrell

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $5}'

this should work.

Gideon

[Unix Administrator_5]

It seems there is a problem with the string I am returning. It must have a newline character at the 75th position.

Now the question is how do I strip that character out when I process it?

[Darrell Allen]

Hi again,

I believe it's back to Marco's request for more info. Would you please post what you are trying to do?

Thanks,
Darrell