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Old 03-25-2010
Question Bourne Shell Script that only takes command line arguments
Does anybody know how to Accept a “userid” as a command line argument on a Unix Bourne Shell Script?

The output should be something like this:

User userid has a home directory of /path/directory
the default shell for this user is /path/shell
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Old 03-25-2010
Is this homework? Because a "different" user, just an hour ago, posted homework using the very same IP as you just did, and your "requirement" seems equally homework-like.
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Old 03-25-2010
Homework?!
Nope Mr. Moderator, I reckon I'm too old to do homeworks at this age :-)
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Old 03-25-2010
What did you try so far?
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Old 03-25-2010
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Originally Posted by ajaira
Homework?!
Nope Mr. Moderator, I reckon I'm too old to do homeworks at this age :-)
Well I wouldn't know since I don't see your birth date anywhere.

Also, if you're old enough to be past homework, one would reckon you're old enough to be able to read, too, and apply that ability to our rules. Because there it states
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(4) Do not 'bump up' questions if they are not answered promptly. No duplicate or cross-posting and do not report a post or send a private message where your goal is to get an answer more quickly.
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Old 03-25-2010
Are you logged in as the user in question?
If so this is a clue:
echo "${SHELL}"
echo "${HOME}"

Do you have legitimate "root" access to the server which would give you sufficient privilege to enquire on other users?
What Operating System do you have?
Are you really using a pure Bourne Shell? This is quite difficult to achieve in modern unix systems. Is this a very old computer?


Ps. Please don't post the same question in multiple places.
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