Thank you for your responses guys! I appreciate them all!
However, I still cannot find a way to append things to a different file to the new user I created for the .bashrc file.
After I create a new user I'd like to edit the new users .bashrc file but I cannot find a way to edit that file.
Code:
sudo sh -c "echo alias ls='ls -al >> /home/$newUser/.bashrc
Does not work
I mean, all of this will work perfectly if I was editing my own currently logged in user .bashrc file
But what about after I create a user?
In theory the script would
1. create a $newUser of your choise
2. create an alias in the .bashrc for the $newUser
3. modify the point of entry in bash in the .bashrc file for the $newUser
Again; it would work perfectly if the user used the script for himself. But that is not the way i'm hoping to do it.
So far this is my full script but it will only work for myself not for the $newUser
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#Adds new user
echo "What is the name of the new user?"
read newUser
#creates a user
sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash $newUser
#modifies point of entry in bash
echo "cd /var/" >> /home/$newUser/.bashrc
echo "Entry of bash has been changed to /var/"
#adds an alias
echo "alias ls='ls -al' " >> /home/$newUser/.bashrc
Hi,
For my bash script, terminal with bash is generate an OK output and program works right.
already,
terminal with ash have "line 48: syntax error: Bad substitution" output and program don't work.
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
which
WHICH(1) General Commands Manual WHICH(1)NAME
which - shows the full path of (shell) commands.
SYNOPSIS
which [options] [--] programname [...]
DESCRIPTION
Which takes one or more arguments. For each of its arguments it prints to stdout the full path of the executables that would have been exe-
cuted when this argument had been entered at the shell prompt. It does this by searching for an executable or script in the directories
listed in the environment variable PATH using the same algorithm as bash(1).
This man page is generated from the file which.texinfo.
OPTIONS --all, -a
Print all matching executables in PATH, not just the first.
--read-alias, -i
Read aliases from stdin, reporting matching ones on stdout. This is useful in combination with using an alias for which itself. For
example
alias which='alias | which -i'.
--skip-alias
Ignore option `--read-alias', if any. This is useful to explicity search for normal binaries, while using the `--read-alias' option in
an alias or function for which.
--read-functions
Read shell function definitions from stdin, reporting matching ones on stdout. This is useful in combination with using a shell func-
tion for which itself. For example:
which() { declare -f | which --read-functions $@ }
export -f which
--skip-functions
Ignore option `--read-functions', if any. This is useful to explicity search for normal binaries, while using the `--read-functions'
option in an alias or function for which.
--skip-dot
Skip directories in PATH that start with a dot.
--skip-tilde
Skip directories in PATH that start with a tilde and executables which reside in the HOME directory.
--show-dot
If a directory in PATH starts with a dot and a matching executable was found for that path, then print "./programname" rather than the
full path.
--show-tilde
Output a tilde when a directory matches the HOME directory. This option is ignored when which is invoked as root.
--tty-only
Stop processing options on the right if not on tty.
--version,-v,-V
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
--help
Print usage information on standard output then exit successfully.
RETURN VALUE
Which returns the number of failed arguments, or -1 when no `programname' was given.
EXAMPLE
The recommended way to use this utility is by adding an alias (C shell) or shell function (Bourne shell) for which like the following:
[ba]sh:
which ()
{
(alias; declare -f) | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --read-functions --show-tilde --show-dot $@
}
export -f which
[t]csh:
alias which 'alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde'
This will print the readable ~/ and ./ when starting which from your prompt, while still printing the full path when used from a script:
> which q2
~/bin/q2
> echo `which q2`
/home/carlo/bin/q2
BUGS
The HOME directory is determined by looking for the HOME environment variable, which aborts when this variable doesn't exist. Which will
consider two equivalent directories to be different when one of them contains a path with a symbolic link.
AUTHOR
Carlo Wood <carlo@gnu.org>
SEE ALSO bash(1)WHICH(1)