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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Create file in each user directory Post 77122 by blowtorch on Tuesday 5th of July 2005 02:13:24 AM
Old 07-05-2005
Well, here goes:

Code:
while read line; do
   user=`echo $line | cut -d':' -f3`
   group=`echo $line | cut -d':' -f4`
   cd ~$user
   touch <filename>
   chown $user:$group <filename> # this will change the group ownership of the file to the user's primary group
done < /etc/passwd

Guys, if anyone can make this more efficient, please do!
 

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