grep vpopmail /etc/passwd | awk -F ":" '{print $6}' or
grep vpopmail /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f6 Reason I'm asking is I'm making some minor modifications to the Makefile for the chkuser patch and I want to make sure they're as absolutely portable as possible before releasing it to the masses. I appreciate any input (including if /etc/passwd is not portable, it's been on every system I've ever seen, but I'm relatively new to *nix compared to a lot of you I'm sure) I can get :) Thanks. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ www.inter7.com ++ 866.528.3530 ++ 847.492.0470 int'l kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail