February 2008: These tests are all badly in need of update.
Some questions are incorrect because of changing technology and others just make no sense in today's IT world.
I do intend to update these, but it's a big project..

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Assume the the file "shadow" contains the following on an OSR5 system:

adm:*::0:0
testuv:LqP1Me8MIY88I:10372::
john::10656::

What will this script produce when it reaches the "john" entry?

#!/bin/ksh
IFS=":"
cat shadow | while read line
do
set $line
echo $1 $2
done

• john
• john :
• john 10656

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