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Thank you so much for your help, that ended up being exactly what I needed. Also, I was being pretty stupid and only editing the second grep line, so that could definitely have had something to do...

How would I go about doing that.. wouldn't that mess up my whole loop?
Because if I drop the cut and the grep and just have ^$userName:, ill have no output for my loop to go off of?
Here's...

right now I'm just stuck on the grep issue.. I've tried everything -w, -x, -x ^'$userName\$', -w ^$userName\$, ^$userName$@, ^$userName\$@, ^$userName$*

Any clues as to what I could use? If user...

Alright so I pretty much have the script working, it's not exactly how the teacher wants. It doesn't loop the whole bash shell list and the Enter username parts. But like you said, I am running...

could I just put something like echo "Enter your username: "
read userName
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | grep $userName > /dev/null
OUT=$?
while [ $OUT -eq 0 ]
do
echo "The user $userName already...

Sorry about the first post, here's one using the template, the code has changed a little bit. I got the Shell error loop working, but not the way it's supposed to be. It's supposed to repost the list...

Hey I'm new here, and I really need some help asap! This assignment is due at midnight tonight, and I'm really having a hard time with it. Basically here's the assignment:
Task
Write a shell script...