Shell Programming and Scripting

This is an assignment I have to do everyone but I was viewing the threads and I assumed that I could write this assignment simpler than what My instructor is directing..

Here is the Assignment

This shell script has the following specifications:
- It must be named: "printpasswd."
- It must take one argument from the command line. The argument will point to a file that follows the /etc/passwd format.
- It will parse the file and output each user's information in the following format: user-name, uid, gid, home, shell and notes.
For example, if the file contains the following information, root:FP3mDXRh.KTMQ:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh, then the output should be
"user-name uid gid home shell notes root 0 0 /root /bin/sh root


Now I was wondering...Can the Script be simply written as Follows?:

#!/bin/bash
# This is the script for parsing the "printpasswd info"
$ chmod +x printpasswd
echo Username
echo User ID
echo Password
echo Group ID
echo Home
echo Notes

and Please don't laught because I'm novice at scripting and it seems as if 85% of the class has experience....so I'm in the dark on this could someone help me please..and thank You

Ahhh...I see no homework allowed..grrr...sorry close this

but could someone tell me if that is useable? what I am trying to execute?

and again..I didn't know homework wasn't allowed to be helped here..