I have access to the /etc/passwd file. All I'm doing is trying to write a program that reads the file /etc/passwd and prints the list of usernames and names of the users contained in the file. The output needs to be in the format:
username_1 name_1
username_2 name_2
The code for this problem that I am using is this:
- UW PICO(tm) 4.5 File: password5.pl-----------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
-lne 'print (split(/:/))[0]' /etc/passwd
and the error i get is this:
et791:~$ ./password5.pl
String found where operator expected at ./password5.pl line 3, near "lne 'print
(split(/:/))[0]'"
(Do you need to predeclare lne?)
syntax error at ./password5.pl line 3, near "lne 'print (split(/:/))[0]'"
Execution of ./password5.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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