A collection of programs in different languages, which perform the following task:
- Open a colon delimited unix password file (provided here) in the current directory
- Read the file and count the instances of each login shell (the last field)
- For each login shell, print the number of accounts using each shell
A script is included, which runs each of the programs and times the results for each
To date, the following languages are represented:
- c
- c++ (thanks
izder456!) - go
- julia
- lisp
- ms powershell
- node.js
- perl
- python
- ruby
- rust (thanks
CordlessCoder!) - crystal-lang (thanks
izder456!) - shell/awk
- Lua (thanks
CordlessCoder!)
If you're an expert in a language not listed here, we welcome your contribution!