Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>Guys,
>
> Writing a batch_create_new_user script.
>input is a file with this format
>
>Username:Full Name:Default Group:Default Shell:Home Directory:Password
>
>and the using those fields ($1 $2 $3 etc) and passing then to the
>useradd program
>
>I'm having some trouble getting bash to get the positional fields
>into variables which I
>can then plug into useradd
>
>eg:
>pseudo code
>for each line in input file
> do
> username=$1
> name=$2
> useradd -c "$2" $1
> done
>
>Can it be done using bash itself? (without calling awk)
Try setting the input field separator, $IFS, something like this:
$ IFS=:; while read a b c; do echo Got $b; done
a:b:c
Got b
foo:bar:moo
Got bar
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