a little shell problem

[der.hans]

Am 11. Oct, 2002 schwätzte Michael Knee so:

> How about
>
> HOME="/home"
> CLIENTS="$HOME/joe/foo
>           $HOME/blow/foo
>           $HOME/schmo/blah"

That doesn't work if someone ever ends up not being in /home.

Grepping the users out of /etc/passwd would work, but it'd be a lot of
overhead to grep it each time. Reading it into an array, then yanking them
out as you go might work, but if you hit something with 45000+ accounts (
e.g. ASU ), then you'll still have a lot of overhead.

ciao,

der.hans
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