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Different awk script

awk -F, '{print $1":"$2":"$3":"$4"::0:0:"$5":"$6":"$7}' <passwd.csv>master

A reviewer sent in the following better replacement:

awk 'BEGIN {FS=","; OFS=":"} {print $1,$2,$3,$4,"",0,0,$5,$6,$7}'

This is better and more efficient. However, I maintain that it's harder for the newbie to awk to understand what's going on.

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