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» Actively Monitor a File
» Simple password generator
» Loop over files with spaces in the name
» swap files
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I use the following to list non-system users. It should be portable though won't work on systems without the getent command.
alias lsusers='getent passwd | tr ":" " " | awk "\$3 >= $(grep UID_MIN /etc/login.defs | cut -d " " -f 2) { print \$1 }" | sort'Comments
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<pre>alias lsusers='awk -F : "\$3 >= $(grep UID_MIN /etc/login.defs | cut -d " " -f 2) { print \$1 }" /etc/passwd | sort'</pre>