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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple script for adding users Post 302754385 by vish6251 on Thursday 10th of January 2013 01:34:14 PM
Old 01-10-2013
ok first problem is solved after implementing your solution. the script now checks if files are already present, if yes then asks to overwrite, if not then copies new files to dir. however if answered NOT TO overwrite, it doesnt create $user_old folder, instead overwrites files anyway.

This is the code :

Code:
copyFiles() {
        cd $4$user  
	old=_old
        ls|wc -w
	CNT=$(ls|wc -w)	
	if [[ $CNT -gt 0 ]]; then
                echo "file for $4$user already exists!"
                echo "Do you want to overwrite the file (y/n):"
                read answer
                if [[ $answer -eq y || $answer -eq Y ]]; then                        
                        for i in `cat $2`
                        do
                                cp $3$i $4$user > /dev/null
                        done
                elif [[ $answer -eq n || $answer -eq N ]]; then
                        mv $4$user $4$user$old > /dev/null
                        mkdir /$4/$user > /dev/null
			for i in `cat $2`
                        do
                                cp $3$i $4$user > /dev/null
                        done
                fi
	else
		for i in `cat $2`
                do
                        cp $3$i $4$user > /dev/null
                done
                chmod 700 $4$user /dev/null
        fi
}

any suggestions?
Last edited by vish6251; 01-10-2013 at 02:46 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

mkdevmaps

mkdevmaps(1M)						  System Administration Commands					     mkdevmaps(1M)

NAME

       mkdevmaps - make device_maps entries

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/mkdevmaps

DESCRIPTION

       The  mkdevmaps  command	writes	to standard out a set of device_maps(4) entries describing the system's frame buffer, audio, and removable
       media devices.

       The mkdevmaps command is used by the init.d(4) scripts to create or update the /etc/security/device_maps file.

       Entries are generated based on the device special files found in /dev. For the different  categories  of  devices,  the	mkdevmaps  command
       checks for the following files under /dev:

	 audio		 /dev/audio, /dev/audioctl, /dev/sound/...
	 tape		 /dev/rst*, /dev/nrst*, /dev/rmt/...
	 floppy 	 /dev/diskette, /dev/fd*, /dev/rdiskette, /dev/rfd*
	 removable disk  /dev/dsk/c0t?d0s?, /dev/rdsk/c0t?d0s?
	 frame buffer	 /dev/fb

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Obsolete			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       allocate(1), bsmconv(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       mkdevmaps might not be supported in a future release of the Solaris operating system.

SunOS 5.11							    8 Oct 2003							     mkdevmaps(1M)
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