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Awk: Custom Field Separator
EasySed & Awk3-5 minThe brief
/root/work/accounts is colon-delimited — username:uid:home — not whitespace-separated.
Extract the USERNAME, the first field, of every line into /root/work/out.txt.
If the delimiter isn't accounted for, each whole line reads as a single field, and grading (which compares against the colon-split first field) will catch it.
What you'll do
- Split each line on colons and take the username field
- Save the usernames to /root/work/out.txt
Hands-on lab: you work on a real Linux box in your browser, graded on the machine's actual state.