On Wednesday 30 January 2008 21:03, Sean Murphy wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and would like to migrate users in the > password file with UIDs 3000 through 5000 to a FreeBSD 6.3 system on a > running on a separate box. Is there a way to export just those users?
I'd probably sort /etc/master.passwd and pipe through awk: sort -t ':' -k3,3n /etc/master.passwd | \ awk -F ':' '$3 ~ /^3[0-9][0-9][0-9]/, $3 ~ /^5/ { print }' This will sort /etc/master.passwd numerically on the third field, uid, and then give you all the lines starting with the first one where the uid is a 3 followed by at least three digits, up to and including the first one after that where the first digit of the uid is a 5. If you capture the output you should be able to merge it on the new host. Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"