Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys/gals,

I have solaris 10 machine and using ksh shell.

I have a huge file template (a simple text file) that gets created in the result of inputs from users (values from some other scripts). for example, one of the scripts creates users, lets say we need 2 users, then it would store those two users in the properties file like this:

(user)
username=userABC
username=userXYZ
(user)

Now, I'm trying to make my script to read the input value of the first user from this file, and then use this value in my script (which is another file), and execute it .... then the same thing for the next user. So, it would be something like a loop such that until no other users are there, keep executing your script.

Can any of you shell scripting gurus out there help a newbie out ? Please help .... <img border="0">

Thanks a lot in advance.

you can try something like this

Code:

while read line ; do
echo $line
echo "$line"|awk -F"=" '{print $2}'
do whatever you want here
done < file_name(which contains your usernames)