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Importing and Exporting Records in Pick

  • September 21, 2025
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Nivethan Thiyagarajah
A couple of posts outlining how I go about importing and exporting things, I use /etc/passwd as the example as I needed a script to move some users over. I have a bash script to do this but moving more of my workflow into Pick is my goal. 
Importing into Pick:
Exporting out of Pick:


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Nivethan Thiyagarajah
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Asynchron Systems Inc
Toronto ON CA
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    Ian McGowan
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    • September 22, 2025
    A couple of posts outlining how I go about importing and exporting things, I use /etc/passwd as the example as I needed a script to move some users over. I have a bash script to do this but moving more of my workflow into Pick is my goal. 
    Importing into Pick:
    Exporting out of Pick:


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    Nivethan Thiyagarajah
    Programmer
    Asynchron Systems Inc
    Toronto ON CA
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    Interesting article!  Good to see some content targeted at newcomers to MV programming.

    >This implies that at one point passwords may have been stored as plaintext in the passwd file. 

    They were never stored as plaintext (AFIAK), even early Unix versions hashed the password, albeit with what would be a criminally weak hash these days.  Source: used a password cracker in college on SunOS workstations to get root access and got in trouble :-)



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