Bash, looping over stdin

June 24, 2005 @ 9:56 am · Filed under Tech, Unix

I usually forget when install samba for the first time in Debian it pulls the whole /etc/passwd db into the samba passwd TDB. ie:


[nic@base-field:~] sudo pdbedit -L
games:5:games
nobody:65534:nobody
proxy:13:proxy
www-data:33:www-data
…

Here’s a quick clean out bash scriptlet.


for VAR in `sudo pdbedit -L | cut -d: -f1`; do
sudo pdbedit -x $VAR;
done

1 Comment

  1. Somewhere out there! » Cleaning up the initial samba passdb.tdb Said,

    April 12, 2006 @ 8:51 pm

    […] Following on from the previous receipe: Bash, looping over stdin, here is a better method: sudo pdbedit -L | cut -f1 -d: | grep -v nic | xargs -n1 sudo pdbedit -x […]

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