Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

GECOS and /etc/passwd

0

Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

/
^(?'username'.*):.*:(?'UID'.*):(?'GID'.*):(?'GECOS'.*):(?'home'.*):(?'shell'.*)$
/
gm

Description

Pull out fields in /etc/password and group.

Submitted by anonymous - a year ago