Hey hows it going.. Iam new to Unix and Iam working on a Solaris system. I need to take the etc/passwd file and seperate the contents by the colons and make them into colums, so it looks something like this.. Please give me some help or advice.. Thanks!!

Before Example:

Donhoke:x:4454:44on Hooke:/var/adm:


After Example:

sbachman 1003 14 Steve Bachman /bin/ksh
dfk 1138 512 Donh Kki /bin/ksh


The user names start in column 0.
The user ids end in column 24.
The group ids end in column 34
The real names start in column 40
The shell starts in column 64

You shoudl post this in Unix Shell Scripts board

Sathyaram