Petre Scheie wrote: > How about this: > > cp filename `grep $1 /etc/passwd |cut -d: -f6` might want to add ^ and : to the grep to limit it to usernames `grep ^$1: ...` or cp filename `eval echo ~$1` Eric
Petre Scheie wrote: > How about this: > > cp filename `grep $1 /etc/passwd |cut -d: -f6` might want to add ^ and : to the grep to limit it to usernames `grep ^$1: ...` or cp filename `eval echo ~$1` Eric