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Old December 5th, 2011, 04:45 AM
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Hi,
I have a shell which shud display the name of the user so i use below grep to take their name

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grep 'l828117' /etc/passwd
[\code]

l828117:0************:828117:357:Thelak Kumar ANBALAGAN, Etudes ACE-TP,,:/home/l828117:/usr/bin/ksh

then i decided to display only the name so i used the below code 
[code]
grep 'l828117' /etc/passwd|cut -d ' ' -f1,2,3

but it displaying like below
l828117:0************:828117:357:Thelak Kumar ANBALAGAN,

i have to achieve only with name like Thelak Kumar ANBALAGAN

how to do this.

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Thelak
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Try:
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grep 'l828117' /etc/passwd|cut -d ':' -f5
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Might also, using similar method, wish to 'parse out' the comment text from the comma onwards.

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grep 'l828117' /etc/passwd|cut -d ':' -f5 | cut -d ',' -f1
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