python vs awk for simple sysamin tasks

[Steve Lamb]

On 2004-06-03, Matthew Thorley <ruach at chpc.utah.edu> wrote:
> It is A LOT longer than the one liners (obviously) but it has way more 
> functionality. With a little tweaking you could easily do all sorts of 
> other useful things. I'm sure utils like this already exist out there 
> whether written in python or not.

    Also it can be made part of a larger project with relative ease.  :)

> Another question. The example my friend gave me takes the user name as 
> an argument not the uid. Does any one know how to convert usernames to 
> uids and vice versa in python ?  Please also comment on the script, any 
> thoughts on simplification ?

    I'd just do a quick pass over the passwd file but then many times I'm
blisfully unaware of things already coded to do the work I'm after.  I mean my
first stab at iterating over the file system didn't use os.path.walk().  :)

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