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For loop to add user accounts

Hi i need to add 100 users on a redhat linux box . Can you guys help me .

useradd -u 123456 -g 400000 -G 4545 -c " abcdef " -m -d /home/abcd -s /bin/bash abcd

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for i in {1..100}
do
useradd -u $i -g 400000 -G 4545 -c $i -m -d /home/$i -s /bin/bash $i
done

I think something like that...
Or you can make a list of names in txt file and read them into for loop.

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