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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating usernames from a list of names Post 302514084 by RSpades on Thursday 14th of April 2011 06:59:56 PM
Old 04-14-2011
Creating usernames from a list of names

Hello everyone,

I am trying to create a script that will make usernames (last name and first letter of name - for example, James Bond = bondj).

At this point, I figured out how to make a script that can read the list of names from a text file.

Here is what I have:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

while read user_list; do
     echo "$user_list" | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'
done < "user_list"

The tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' minimizes the capital letters of the names to lower case so I feel I am close.

Your help would greatly be appreciated Smilie
 

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GROUP(5)                                                     Linux Programmer's Manual                                                    GROUP(5)

NAME
group - user group file DESCRIPTION
The /etc/group file is a text file that defines the groups on the system. There is one entry per line, with the following format: group_name:password:GID:user_list The fields are as follows: group_name the name of the group. password the (encrypted) group password. If this field is empty, no password is needed. GID the numeric group ID. user_list a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas. FILES
/etc/group BUGS
As the 4.2BSD initgroups(3) man page says: no one seems to keep /etc/group up-to-date. SEE ALSO
chgrp(1), gpasswd(1), groups(1), login(1), newgrp(1), sg(1), getgrent(3), getgrnam(3), gshadow(5), passwd(5) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2016-10-08 GROUP(5)
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