#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $passwd = '/etc/passwd'; my @users = (); open my $in, '<', $passwd or die "$passwd: $!\n"; while ( my $line = <$in> ) { my ( $user ) = split( /:/, $line, 2 ); push @users, $user; } close $in; @users = sort @users; print "@users\n";