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Bit Twister
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:01 -0400, Ross wrote:
| Quote: | Hi there,
I am going to create 9000 users.
I have all the user names in a txt file userlist.txt like this:
user_1
user_2
:
user_9000
I want the passwd file to be created like this:
user_1:x:1001:1000::/home/user_1:/bin/bash
user_2:x:1002:1000::/home/user_2:/bin/bash
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user_1000:x:1001::/home/user_2000:/bin/bash
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user_9000:x:1009::/home/user_9000:/bin/bash
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looks like a simple while loop with two counters.
_uid=1000
_gid=999
while read user ; do
_uid=$(( $_uid + 1 ))
_gid=$(( $_gid + 1 ))
echo $user:x:$_uid:$_gid::/home/$user:/bin/bash >> /tmp/passwd
done < user_fn_here
for extra points
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html |
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Ross
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 26 Mar 2005
Posts: 108
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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Thanks a lot for your idea!
But the $user comes with new line. The output is like this:
user_1^M :1001:1000::/home/user_1^M:/bin/bash
user_2^M:1002:1001::/home/user_2^M:/bin/bash
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How could I eliminate the ^M?
In addition, I'd like to have users grouped like this: gid:1000 for users
user_1 to user_1000, and gid:1001 for users from user_1001 to user_2000,
etc.
Thanks again,
Ross
"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
news:slrne9e3oo.bp7.BitTwister@wb.home.invalid...
| Quote: | On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:01 -0400, Ross wrote:
Hi there,
I am going to create 9000 users.
I have all the user names in a txt file userlist.txt like this:
user_1
user_2
:
user_9000
I want the passwd file to be created like this:
user_1:x:1001:1000::/home/user_1:/bin/bash
user_2:x:1002:1000::/home/user_2:/bin/bash
:
user_1000:x:1001::/home/user_2000:/bin/bash
:
user_9000:x:1009::/home/user_9000:/bin/bash
looks like a simple while loop with two counters.
_uid=1000
_gid=999
while read user ; do
_uid=$(( $_uid + 1 ))
_gid=$(( $_gid + 1 ))
echo $user:x:$_uid:$_gid::/home/$user:/bin/bash >> /tmp/passwd
done < user_fn_here
for extra points
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
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Chris F.A. Johnson
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 2268
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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On 2006-06-19, Ross wrote:
| Quote: | Hi there,
I am going to create 9000 users.
I have all the user names in a txt file userlist.txt like this:
user_1
user_2
:
user_9000
I want the passwd file to be created like this:
user_1:x:1001:1000::/home/user_1:/bin/bash
user_2:x:1002:1000::/home/user_2:/bin/bash
:
user_1000:x:1001::/home/user_2000:/bin/bash
:
user_9000:x:1009::/home/user_9000:/bin/bash
How could I use bash with something like awk to create the passwd file?
And also the group, shadow files (all passwords can be the same)?
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awk -v gid=1000 '{ uid = gid + 1
printf "%s:%d:%d::/home/%s:/bin/bash\n", $1, uid, gid++, $1
}' userlist.txt >> /etc/passwd
You will also have to create a shadow file.
--
Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
===== My code in this post, if any, assumes the POSIX locale
===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence |
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Michael Heiming
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 1423
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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In comp.os.linux.networking Ross <nospam@ross.com>:
| Quote: | Hi there,
I am going to create 9000 users.
I have all the user names in a txt file userlist.txt like this:
user_1
user_2
:
user_9000
I want the passwd file to be created like this:
user_1:x:1001:1000::/home/user_1:/bin/bash
user_2:x:1002:1000::/home/user_2:/bin/bash
:
user_1000:x:1001::/home/user_2000:/bin/bash
:
user_9000:x:1009::/home/user_9000:/bin/bash
How could I use bash with something like awk to create the passwd file?
And also the group, shadow files (all passwords can be the same)?
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awk 'BEGIN{u=1000}{u++;print $1":"u":1000::/home/"$1":/bin/sh"}' infile > out
But why the hassle? You can script useradd to do the job more
easily for you. As usual the fine manual 'man useradd' has the
info.
Good luck
BTW
Still curious what this has to do with networking?
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Michael Heiming
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 1423
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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In comp.os.linux.networking Ross <nospam@ross.com>:
| Quote: | "Bit Twister" <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:01 -0400, Ross wrote:
Hi there,
I am going to create 9000 users.
[ short bash script to do it ] |
| Quote: | http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
Thanks a lot for your idea!
But the $user comes with new line. The output is like this:
user_1^M:1001:1000::/home/user_1^M:/bin/bash
user_2^M:1002:1001::/home/user_2^M:/bin/bash
:
How could I eliminate the ^M?
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Don't keep your files on a doze box, those can't even handle a
text file probably, as you just encountered. Alternatively run
'dos2unix' over the file.
Good luck
BTW
There's no need to create shadow + groups if you just use
'useradd' for the job.
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Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 223: The lines are all busy (busied out, that is --
why let them in to begin with?). |
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Chris F.A. Johnson
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 2268
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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On 2006-06-19, Ross wrote:
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"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
news:slrne9e3oo.bp7.BitTwister@wb.home.invalid...
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:01 -0400, Ross wrote:
Hi there,
I am going to create 9000 users.
I have all the user names in a txt file userlist.txt like this:
user_1
user_2
:
user_9000
I want the passwd file to be created like this:
user_1:x:1001:1000::/home/user_1:/bin/bash
user_2:x:1002:1000::/home/user_2:/bin/bash
:
user_1000:x:1001::/home/user_2000:/bin/bash
:
user_9000:x:1009::/home/user_9000:/bin/bash
looks like a simple while loop with two counters.
_uid=1000
_gid=999
while read user ; do
_uid=$(( $_uid + 1 ))
_gid=$(( $_gid + 1 ))
echo $user:x:$_uid:$_gid::/home/$user:/bin/bash >> /tmp/passwd
done < user_fn_here
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[please don't top post]
| Quote: | Thanks a lot for your idea!
But the $user comes with new line. The output is like this:
user_1^M:1001:1000::/home/user_1^M:/bin/bash
user_2^M:1002:1001::/home/user_2^M:/bin/bash
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How could I eliminate the ^M?
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In bash:
CR=$'\r'
user=${user%"$CR"}
The script will be much faster in awk; see below.
| Quote: | In addition, I'd like to have users grouped like this: gid:1000 for users
user_1 to user_1000, and gid:1001 for users from user_1001 to user_2000,
etc.
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awk -v uid=1000 -v gid=999 '
NR % 1000 == 1 { ++gid }
{ sub( "\r","")
printf "%s:%d:%d::/home/%s:/bin/bash\n", $1, ++uid, gid, $1
}
' userlist.txt >> /etc/passwd
--
Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
===== My code in this post, if any, assumes the POSIX locale
===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence |
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Bit Twister
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 1546
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:19:33 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
| Quote: | You will also have to create a shadow file.
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Then there is creating home directory, copy initial user files from
/etc/skel, set owner/group userX,......  |
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Bit Twister
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 1546
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:16:37 -0400, Ross wrote:
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In addition, I'd like to have users grouped like this: gid:1000 for users
user_1 to user_1000, and gid:1001 for users from user_1001 to user_2000,
etc.
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Use an if statement around the code bumping the group id to decide
when to bump the group variable. |
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Chris F.A. Johnson
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 2268
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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On 2006-06-19, Michael Heiming wrote:
| Quote: | In comp.os.linux.networking Ross <nospam@ross.com>:
"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:01 -0400, Ross wrote:
Hi there,
I am going to create 9000 users.
[ short bash script to do it ]
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
Thanks a lot for your idea!
But the $user comes with new line. The output is like this:
user_1^M:1001:1000::/home/user_1^M:/bin/bash
user_2^M:1002:1001::/home/user_2^M:/bin/bash
:
How could I eliminate the ^M?
Don't keep your files on a doze box, those can't even handle a
text file probably,
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s/probably/properly/
There is nothing improper about a Windows text file; the standard
allows CR/LF line endings.
| Quote: | as you just encountered. Alternatively run
'dos2unix' over the file.
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Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
===== My code in this post, if any, assumes the POSIX locale
===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence |
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Ertugrul Soeylemez
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 126
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> (06-06-19 23:24:09):
| Quote: | But why the hassle? You can script useradd to do the job more easily
for you. As usual the fine manual 'man useradd' has the info.
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Yes, and it's also more portable and optionally allows automatic home
directory creation based on a template, and so on. You shouldn't tamper
with /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow, unless you have a good
reason to do so. Use system tools instead.
To get you started:
for n in `seq 0 8999`; do
useradd -u $((1000 + $n)) -g $((1001 + $n / 1000)) user_$((1000 + $n))
done
Regards,
E.S. |
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Michael Heiming
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 1423
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:08 am Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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In comp.os.linux.networking Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson@gmail.com>:
| Quote: | On 2006-06-19, Michael Heiming wrote:
In comp.os.linux.networking Ross <nospam@ross.com>:
"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:01 -0400, Ross wrote:
Hi there,
I am going to create 9000 users.
[ short bash script to do it ]
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
Thanks a lot for your idea!
But the $user comes with new line. The output is like this:
user_1^M:1001:1000::/home/user_1^M:/bin/bash
user_2^M:1002:1001::/home/user_2^M:/bin/bash
:
How could I eliminate the ^M?
Don't keep your files on a doze box, those can't even handle a
text file probably,
s/probably/properly/
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Thx for reminding! ;-)
| Quote: | There is nothing improper about a Windows text file; the standard
allows CR/LF line endings.
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Just that it sucks if you edit/transfer text on one and copy to
the other. Strange enough there's zero problem between any kind
of unix system. Just M$ has this problem, perhaps because it
isn't an OS but a fine? ;-)
| Quote: | as you just encountered. Alternatively run
'dos2unix' over the file.
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So much for standards...
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mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
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Chris F.A. Johnson
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Joined: 20 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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On 2006-06-19, Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote:
| Quote: | Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> (06-06-19 23:24:09):
But why the hassle? You can script useradd to do the job more easily
for you. As usual the fine manual 'man useradd' has the info.
Yes, and it's also more portable
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It is not portable; there are different versions, with different
syntax, even among Linux distros. Other *nixen may not have it at
all.
--
Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
===== My code in this post, if any, assumes the POSIX locale
===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence |
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Ross
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 26 Mar 2005
Posts: 108
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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Thanks a bunch to all guys!
Your replies are very helpful!
Ross
"Ross" <nospam@ross.com> wrote in message
news:UeOdndoExoWHkQrZnZ2dnUVZ_q-dnZ2d@magma.ca...
| Quote: | Hi there,
I am going to create 9000 users.
I have all the user names in a txt file userlist.txt like this:
user_1
user_2
:
user_9000
I want the passwd file to be created like this:
user_1:x:1001:1000::/home/user_1:/bin/bash
user_2:x:1002:1000::/home/user_2:/bin/bash
:
user_1000:x:1001::/home/user_2000:/bin/bash
:
user_9000:x:1009::/home/user_9000:/bin/bash
How could I use bash with something like awk to create the passwd file?
And also the group, shadow files (all passwords can be the same)?
Thanks,
Ross
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Michael Heiming
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 1423
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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In comp.os.linux.networking Ertugrul Soeylemez <never@drwxr-xr-x.org>:
| Quote: | Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> (06-06-19 23:24:09):
But why the hassle? You can script useradd to do the job more easily
for you. As usual the fine manual 'man useradd' has the info.
Yes, and it's also more portable and optionally allows automatic home
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If more portable or not, 'useradd' should ease up things
tremendously.
Basically the versions of useradd on many unix[tm] work the same
as the Linux version, the later has a nice option to hand over a
crypt() string as password. Haven't seen this option in any other
unix[tm], though it might have been added since I checked.
Halfway recent *BSD versions can do the same through 'pw' (iirc).
No rocket science to rewrite with awk one version to another.
| Quote: | directory creation based on a template, and so on. You shouldn't tamper
with /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow, unless you have a good
reason to do so. Use system tools instead.
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Indeed, strange enough the better idea of doing so occurred me
just after typing the line awk.
| Quote: | To get you started:
for n in `seq 0 8999`; do
useradd -u $((1000 + $n)) -g $((1001 + $n / 1000)) user_$((1000 + $n))
done
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Nice line of bash. ;-)
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mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
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Ertugrul Soeylemez
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 126
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject:
Re: How to create /etc/passwd file?
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"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> (06-06-20 13:47:12):
| Quote: | But why the hassle? You can script useradd to do the job more
easily for you. As usual the fine manual 'man useradd' has the
info.
Yes, and it's also more portable
It is not portable; there are different versions, with different
syntax, even among Linux distros. Other *nixen may not have it at
all.
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I didn't say it's portable. I said, it's _more_ portable. Editing
/etc/passwd directly may even be unportable on the same distribution
with a different version.
Regards,
E.S. |
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