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AWK Examples[Field Separator, Skip comments, Beginning Text]: Read /etc/passwd and format.
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print_user_accounts.sh
awk '/^#/ {next} BEGIN {FS=":"; print "\Name\tUserID\tGroup\tHomeDirectory"} { print $1"\t"$3"\t"$4"\t"$6}' /etc/passwd
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mlvea commented Aug 22, 2018

/^#/ {next} Skip to the next line if the line begins with #.
FS=":" Set the field separator to ":"

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