Finding the UID for samba users

[Paul Howarth]

Tim Holmes wrote:
>>getent passwd username | cut -d: -f3
>>
>>Substitute "username" with the username you're interested in.
>>
> 
> [Tim Holmes] 
> Paul:
> 
> Thanks so much -- 
> 
> 
> Just as a learning tool for me, could you explain the switches that you
> used after the pipe in that command?  I am not familiar with them.

See "man cut" for explanation of options for the "cut" program...

Paul.