I'm trying to get the following Bourne shell script to output a list of all users on the server with the exception of those listed in the $ignore_users variable:
-snip- #!/bin/sh sed=/usr/bin/sed passwd_file=/etc/passwd ignore_users="root|toor|daemon|operator|bin|tty|kmem|games|news|man|smmsp|bind|uucp|xten|pop|nobody|mysql|www|sshd|ftp|cyrus" cmd="$sed -E -e '/^(#|$ignore_users)/d' -e 's/:.*//' $passwd_file" users=`cmd` echo $users -snip- However when I run this code it returns: sed: 1: "'/^(#|root|toor|daemon| ...": invalid command code ' How can I get this code to work? If I echo out the contents of $cmd it looks as it should do: /usr/bin/sed -E -e '/^(#|root|toor|daemon|operator|bin|tty|kmem|games|news|man|smmsp|bind|uucp|xten|pop|nobody|mysql|www|sshd|ftp|cyrus)/d' -e 's/:.*//' /etc/passwd and if I execute that command I get the desired result - I'm just having trouble getting the results of the command into a variable. TIA -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"