How can I match username from username/ ?

abefroman · 04-26-2009, 08:41 PM

How can I match username from username/ ?

I tried with sed to match [a-z]* but that didn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

IE.
ls /home/ | sed "s/[a-z]*//"

Actually that seemed to match it, but I want it, to output the username withouth the /

TIA

chrism01 · 04-26-2009, 08:51 PM

If you just want to extract the username from /home/username

Code:

ls /home/|cut -d'/' -f2

does it.

to check a specific name

Code:

usr=`ls /home/|cut -d'/' -f2`
if [[ $usr =~ "fred" ]]
then
    echo "match"
fi

abefroman · 04-26-2009, 09:10 PM

Thanks!

It was actually
ls /home/|cut -d'/' -f1