Basic command help

[ILastWishI]

Very very new to Linux, taking an introduction course this semester and I am trying to grasp everything but it has been uphill so far. I was hoping this would be the place to come get some extra help. I got a few questions on this basic command.

Here is what the "question" is:

Display the user-ids from the mypass_with_spaces file

And a similar one:

Extract the user-names, user-id, and group-id from the mypass_with_spaces file and store them in a file called users.dat

I tried:

CP mypass_with_spaces users.dat

but that just copies the entire file. I'm confused how to just get the user-ids/group-ids/user-names.


Any help guys?

Thanks a lot!

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Unfortunately, it's against the forum rules to post homework questions, so your thread will have to be locked.

Very sorry about that, but I do hope you will enjoy your computer course.

You can learn some basic commands at LinuxCommand.org