awk and shell question

[Bob Weissman]

In article <2130 at munnari.oz.au>, ok at cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
> Again, watch out for Yellow Pages; if you're using that you have to do
> 	ypcat passwd | grep "^${LOGNAME}" | what-ever-you-want-here

I hate to see this kind of inefficiency advertised.  Use
	ypmatch $LOGNAME passwd | whatever
instead.

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