using /usr/bin/cut in scripts...

[Dave Hammond]

In article <19253 at well.sf.ca.us> Brian Lawrence Dear writes:
>
>          gid=`/usr/bin/cut -f3 -d: /etc/group|sort -n|tail -1`
> 
>Thing is, the /usr/bin/cut command is not available on everyone's
>SCO XENIX machine.[...]
>
>So.. my question is, is there an alternative to the script
>above that I can use and rest assured it'll work on all SCO
>XENIX 386 platforms, to add a new group as described?

One alternative is awk.  Replace "/usr/bin/cut -f3 -d:" with
"awk -F: '{print $3}'":

          gid=`awk -F: '{print $3}' /etc/group|sort -n|tail -1`


Another alternative is to get the public domain version of cut from
your local comp.sources archive.

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Dave Hammond
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