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I have been trying to find the answer to this question for awhilea while. I am writing a quick script to run a command based on output from awk.

ID_minimum=1000 for f in /etc/passwd; do  awk -F: -vID=$ID_minimum '$3>=1000 && $1!="nfsnobody" { print "xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g $1' /home "}' $f; done

The problems are that the -c-c argument takes a command in single quotes and I can't figure out how to properly escape that and also that $1$1 doesn't expand into the username.

essentiallyEssentially I am just trying to get it to output:

xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g userone' /home xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g usertwo' /home

etc...

I have been trying to find the answer to this question for awhile. I am writing a quick script to run a command based on output from awk.

ID_minimum=1000 for f in /etc/passwd; do awk -F: -vID=$ID_minimum '$3>=1000 && $1!="nfsnobody" { print "xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g $1' /home "}' $f; done

The problems are that the -c argument takes a command in single quotes and I can't figure out how to properly escape that and also that $1 doesn't expand into the username.

essentially I am just trying to get it to output:

xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g userone' /home xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g usertwo' /home

etc...

I have been trying to find the answer to this question for a while. I am writing a quick script to run a command based on output from awk.

ID_minimum=1000 for f in /etc/passwd; do  awk -F: -vID=$ID_minimum '$3>=1000 && $1!="nfsnobody" { print "xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g $1' /home "}' $f; done

The problems are that the -c argument takes a command in single quotes and I can't figure out how to properly escape that and also that $1 doesn't expand into the username.

Essentially I am just trying to get it to output:

xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g userone' /home xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g usertwo' /home

etc...

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I have been trying to find the answer to this question for awhile. I am writing a quick script to run a command based on output from awk.

ID_minimum=1000 for f in /etc/passwd; do awk -F: -vID=$ID_minimum '$3>=1000 && $1!="nfsnobody" { print "xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g $1' /home "}' $f; done

The problems are that the -c argument takes a command in single quotes and I can't figure out how to properly escape that and also that $1 doesn't expand into the username.

essentially I am just trying to get it to output:

xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g userone' /home xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g usertwo' /home

xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g userone' /home xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g usertwo' /home

etc...

I have been trying to find the answer to this question for awhile. I am writing a quick script to run a command based on output from awk.

ID_minimum=1000 for f in /etc/passwd; do awk -F: -vID=$ID_minimum '$3>=1000 && $1!="nfsnobody" { print "xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g $1' /home "}' $f; done

The problems are that the -c argument takes a command in single quotes and I can't figure out how to properly escape that and also that $1 doesn't expand into the username.

essentially I am just trying to get it to output:

xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g userone' /home xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g usertwo' /home

etc...

I have been trying to find the answer to this question for awhile. I am writing a quick script to run a command based on output from awk.

ID_minimum=1000 for f in /etc/passwd; do awk -F: -vID=$ID_minimum '$3>=1000 && $1!="nfsnobody" { print "xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g $1' /home "}' $f; done

The problems are that the -c argument takes a command in single quotes and I can't figure out how to properly escape that and also that $1 doesn't expand into the username.

essentially I am just trying to get it to output:

xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g userone' /home xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g usertwo' /home

etc...

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I have been trying to find the answer to this question for awhile. I am writing a quick script to run a command based on output from awk.

ID_minimum=1000 for f in /etc/passwd; do awk -F: -vID=$ID_minimum '$3>=1000 && $1!="nfsnobody" { print "xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g $1' /home "}' $f; done

The problems are that the -c argument takes a command in single quotes and I can't figure out how to properly escape that and also that $1 doesn't expand into the username.

essentially I am just trying to get it to output:

xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g userone' /home xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g usertwo' /home

etc...