Sorting of passwd/group files

[schreian at bc.edu (Tony Schreiner)]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

> Is there a program on CentOS which will sort my passwd/group etc.  
> files by
> username or uid/gid? On Suse I can do this with a sysconfig switch and
> Suseconfig, is there something similar on RH-based systems?
>
> Kai
>
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e.g.
sort -t: +0 /etc/passwd >outfile-byname
sort -t: -n +2 /etc/passwd >outfile-byuid
?

for what purpose do you need this?

Tony