Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi - please see below ... so far could not make it working :-(
Thanks for the help.

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#!/bin/sh
# uid.sh

while read v2.txt test.ldif
do
case "$v2.txt" in
uid: )
echo "$test.ldif"
;;
* )
;;
esac
done < test.ldif

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#!/bin/sh
# uid2.sh

test.ldif="$1"

while read v2.txt
do
if test "$v2.txt" = "$test.ldif"
then
exit 0
fi
done

exit 1;


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./uid.sh | uid2.sh next-uid

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#!/bin/sh
# uid3.sh

while read v2.txt
do
./uid.sh | ./uid2.sh "$v2.txt"
if test "$?" = "0"
then
echo user "$v2.txt" exists
else
echo user "$v2.txt" does not exist
fi
done <users

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Hm,

the construct

Code:

while read VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 .... VARN
do
    ..... $VAR1 etc ....
done <FILE

expects FILE to be the filename you want to read
and VAR1 VAR2 etc to be variable names to be used inside the do/done.

The idea of splitting these up into individual scripts is you can test them individually, so running the first script should just print a list of valid userids from the ldap dump.

mmmm if i understood correctly, VAR1, VAR2 .. etc are uid's ....but there are so many of them in a txt file. Is there a way I can get the txt running against the ldif to check all uids ? Thanks much...