AWK double delimiter

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello,
an awk style question (or a stupid question... it depends on your point of view :slight_smile: )
How can I write in one awk command these two ones ?

$USER - `grep $USER /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{ print $5 }' | awk -F, '{  print $1 }'`

Thanks
gb

2

In the awk -F option you can use a regular expression.
Check below:

# echo "a:b,c" | awk -F"[,|:]" '{print $1 " " $2 " " $3}'
a b c
3

Gracias Felipe for you answer,
but I'm not looking at this.
I want a sequentially awk search :
first with delimiter ":"
after with delimiter ","

br

4

Not sure of what you want try :

$USER - $(grep $USER /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{gsub(",","",$5); print $5}')

or

$USER - $(grep $USER /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{split($5,a,","); print a[1]}')
5 
awk -F: '$0 ~ user { 
  print substr($5, 1, index($5, ",") - 1)
  }' user="$USER" /etc/passwd