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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automatic User Creation Post 302752321 by charlieabee on Sunday 6th of January 2013 08:17:30 PM

01-06-2013

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gahh I'm confused. I was under the impression that I was incrementing the value which then dictates which line to read from the file.

the code you've said I should use, could you possibly help me in terms of what I need to replace if I put that in and where etc?

Sorry I'm just so new to shell scripting, total noob.

---------- Post updated at 08:17 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:09 PM ----------

I have managed to integrate your suggestion Jerry thanks a lot for the help but it's brought up another issue now, maybe simply fixed but I can't get my head around it.

This is my code now:

Quote:

useradd () {

while read eachline
do
existinguser=$(find /home -name $eachline)
if
[ -s $existinguser ]
then
sudo useradd -m $eachline
else
userexists

fi
done < Usernames

}

userexists () {
echo "PRESS 1 TO DELETE THE OLD $existinguser ACCOUNT, OR 2 TO KEEP IT, BUT RENAME IT WITH _OLD PREFIX:"
read input
echo $input

if [ $input -eq '1' ]
then
user=$(basename $existinguser)
sudo userdel $user
sudo rm -rf $existinguser
echo "USER ACCOUNT DELETED"
sudo useradd -m $user
unset username
unset existinguser
unset user
elif [ $input -eq '2' ]
then
suffix="_old"
user=$(basename $existinguser)
sudo userdel $user
sudo mv /home/$user /home/$user$suffix
echo "USER ACCOUNT NAME SUFFIXED WITH _OLD"
sudo useradd -m $user
unset username
unset existinguser
unset user
fi

useradd

}

useradd

The script successfully creates user accounts for names of accounts that don't already exist but when the userexists () function is called it throws up an infinite loop error message that says,

Quote:

./makeUser1: 28: [: /home/shaun: unexpected operator
PRESS 1 TO DELETE THE OLD /home/shaun
/home/charlie/.local/share/Trash/files/shaun ACCOUNT, OR 2 TO KEEP IT, BUT RENAME IT WITH _OLD PREFIX:
ellis
./makeUser1: 45: [: Illegal number: ellis
./makeUser1: 55: [: Illegal number: ellis

If anybody can help me fix this issue it would be much appreciated!

thank's in advance again

charlieabee

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME

       script - make record of a terminal session

SYNOPSIS

       script [-a] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       The  script  utility  makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
       record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.

       The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
       when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -a	Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.

NOTES

       script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5)

WARNINGS

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       privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.

SunOS 5.10							    30 Jan 2004 							 script(1)

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