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