Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I need a shell program that will prompt the user to input a dept name to the script.
The script should then check a specific directory called ‘report' in the home directory of each member of that dept.
If the report directory does not exist, or there are no contents in the directory, that user's name should be stored in a file called ‘logfile' in the current directory. The first line in logfile should contain a header ‘List of users with no reports on ‘today's date and time' ‘
Otherwise the contents of the directory should be copied to a sub directory called ‘reporting' in the current directory.
The script should repeat the process until all users in the dept have been checked.

Thanks,
Johnny

what have you done so far...

where is it failing...

I'm a Unix novice so I haven't really done much...


echo -e "Please enter the dept name: \c"
read classname

# parse the /etc/group file to extract username, found in forth field
groupnum=`cat /etc/group/ | grep $classname | cut -f4 -d:`

# need to pass this info to the /etc/passwd file to check users home directory for the 'report' file