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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to define multiple environment variables in a shell script? Post 303045906 by sea on Friday 17th of April 2020 04:11:02 PM
Old 04-17-2020
You're using find to search directories, nice.
But then you're using the variable without checking if it's has one , none or more results.

Further, I assume that you want the variable $user_name to actualy contain (just) the "<username>", and not the string "username + <username>".
This said, you might want to take care of that, afterwhich you might want to use something like this:
Code:
if [[ -n "$user_name" ]]
then    export NAME=$user_name
else    echo "<user_name> is empty"
        # If it is within a script:
        #exit 1
fi

As the string might become empty after removing the found string pattern from it's content ("username + <username>"), if it even finds anything - as in your current case.
This said, you might want to make sure where your find starts from.

I would also suggest to take care of multiple finds (tempfiles) within a a for loop.
This is my suggested handling for all dynamic (find, locate, *, ls, which, etc) variables.

Hope this helps
Last edited by sea; 04-17-2020 at 05:18 PM..
 

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asadmin-delete-file-user(1AS)					   User Commands				     asadmin-delete-file-user(1AS)

NAME

       asadmin-delete-file-user, delete-file-user - removes the named file user

SYNOPSIS

       delete-file-user  --user  admin_user  [--password  admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile filename]
       [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true] [--authrealmname auth_realm_name] user_name

       Deletes the entry in the keyfile with the specified username. If the auth_realm_name is not specified, an entry is created in  the  default
       keyfile. If auth_realm_name is specified, an entry is created in the keyfile where the auth-realm name in the domain.xml file points to.

       This command is supported in remote mode only.

OPTIONS

       --user		       authorized domain application server administrative username.

       --password	       password to administer the domain application server.

       --host		       machine name where the domain application server is running.

       --port		       port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests.

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server.

       --passwordfile	       file containing the domain application server password.

       --terse		       indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-
			       formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false.

       --echo		       setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false.

       --interactive	       if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.

       --authrealmname	       name, in the domain.xml file, where you have different stores for file auth realm.

OPERANDS

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EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Using the delete-file-user command

       It is assumed that an authority realm has already been created using the create-auth-realm command.

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EXIT STATUS

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       1		       error in executing the command

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