Shell Programming and Scripting

BEGIN
{	FS="[\t]";
	OFS=" ";
}

{
	# if some values in Array3 are null, use 'x' instead. Works !
	split($1,userArray," ");
}

{
	for (i=1;i<=NR;i++)
	if (userArray[3] == "")
	userArray[3]="x"
}

{ 
	# get the usernames output desired: it works.
	x=tolower(substr(userArray[2],1,1)substr(userArray[3],1,1)substr(userArray[1],2,1)substr($4,1,3));
}

{
	#get the GECOS from file ! Works.
	comment=sprintf(substr(userArray[2],1)" "substr(userArray[3],1,match(userArray[3],"\"")-1)" "substr(userArray[1],2,match(userArray[1],",")-2)" "$2 " "$3" "$4);
}

function addUser()
{
	#start of function - still working on it
	#for (x=1;x<=length(userz);x++)
	#dept=substr(userz[x],3);
	#if [ "dept" == "eng" ]
	#useradd -c arrayHoldingGECOS -g Engineering -d/home/Engineering user[x]
	#to check: cat /etc/passwd
	#useradd -c  user[x] 
	echo "uncomplete"		
	#end of function
}

{
	#make an array, so each user names goes to a diff element in the users array
	split(x,users);
	print users[1];

}

"ADLER, CHARLES DAVID" 00-9388 x0753 Engineering

awk 'BEGIN {FS="\""}
{  n=split($2,aname," ")
   for(i=2;i<=n;i++) {
     user=user substr(aname[i],1,1)
     comment=aname[i]
   }
   comment=comment " " aname[1]
   gsub(",","",comment)
   user=user substr($2,1,1)
   n=split($3,aname," ")
   user=user substr(aname[n],1,3)
   user=tolower(user)
   comment=comment " " aname[1] " " aname[2] " " aname[3]
   group=aname[n]
   print "useradd -c " comment " -g " group " -d /home/" group "/" user
}' file