Hi Everyone!

Extreme newbie here...

Ok so I figured I would use the cut command to view a list of usernames and login shells from the /etc/passwd file. I wanted to take out the ":" and replace it with a space. Then I wanted to sort the list in ascending order using the login shell column as the primary and the usernames as the secondary. So I tried the following and I'm just scratching my head as to why it is not working exactly the way I want it to.

cut -d: -f1,7 --output-delimiter=" " /etc/passwd | sort -k7 -k1

Everything is working fine except for the sorting. This seems to be sorting the first column but not the second (or the 7th column, the column I want sorted first).

Any ideas Linux gurus?

Thank you!

Mike

Hi,

The output created by the cut command has 2 columns, not 7: Hope this helps.

Hi Druuna!

OMG! HA HA HA! Maybe one day I'll learn to get some sleep and not post stupid questions online! Thank you so much! That puts it all into perspective! YOU are awesome!!!

Thanks again!

Mike

You're welcome

BTW: Can you put up the [SOLVED] tag.
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