[plug] Manipulating a text file

[Earnshaw, Mike]

Pluggers,

I am having trouble extracting the first columns of our passwd file into
another file ...

mike:x:500:500 ....

I have about 100 users and I just want the names column. I have played
around a bit with cut and awk but the correct syntax is eluding me. I
think I may need to get the 'nutshell' book ...

I require this info to feed in htpasswd to generate a list of user/pass
pairs for squid authentication.

Any help really appreciated.

Thanks

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