Parsing Unix /etc/passwd File

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        // Here is an easy way to parse the /etc/passwd file.  Perl has built in
functions that only use /etc/passwd as a file.  It's built into the
function and you don't have to declare it.  

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

setpwent();
while (@list = getpwent())  {
     ($LOGIN,$PASSWORD,$UID,$GID,$QUOTA,$COMMENT,$GECOS,$HOMEDIR,$SHELL)
= @list[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8];
    print "$LOGIN,$PASSWORD,$UID,$GID,$QUOTA,$COMMENT,$GECOS,$HOMEDIR,$SHELL\n";
                            }
endpwent();

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• Perl