On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:46:08AM -0500, leam wrote: > Because I want to: > grep $i /etc/passwd || grep $i passwd.new >> /etc/passwd > in the passwd, group, shadow, etc files. This lets me test if they're > already there and add them if not, preventing duplicate entries. Why not just use useradd? There's tools designed to do exactly this. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list