using /usr/bin/cut in scripts...

[Alan Sparks]

In article <19253 at well.sf.ca.us> whofan at well.sf.ca.us (Brian Lawrence Dear) writes:
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>The following is a portion of an installation script.  This portion
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>          gid=`/usr/bin/cut -f3 -d: /etc/group|sort -n|tail -1`
>          gid=`eval $gid + 1`
>          echo "mygroup::$gid:user1,user2,usern" >> /etc/group
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>Thing is, the /usr/bin/cut command is not available on everyone's
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>So.. my question is, is there an alternative to the script
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Might I suggest replacing the first line with:

	gid=`/bin/awk -F: '{print $3}' etc/group|sort -n|tail -1`