On 07/16/2004 08:35 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
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)
Not really, because bash delimits fields with spaces, not colons.
Use cut with -d":" on each line to set the variables?
