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SCO UnixWare 7

Hi friends,

I have experimented with various loops but can't seem to get it right.

I have a file which I need to copy into all users home directories.

Is there an easy way of doing this ?

Thanks

Suresh

You might try this....


$ find /yourtophome -type d -exec cp /tmp/mycpfile {} \;

Only drawback, it puts it into EVERY directory recursively

/home/user/saved/mycpfile
/home/user/junk/mycpfile
/home/user/mycpfile

Otherwise, post your script or at least what you are attempting to do this in (shell).

Here is a hint in csh (which no one usually uses)

%pwd
/home
% foreach xx ( `ls -1d ./*`)
cp /tmp/mycpfile $xx/mycpfile
end
%

Thanks - you're a star!!

You can get list of home directories with:
awk -F: '{print $6}' < /etc/passwd

so

cp somefile `awk -F: '{print $6}' < /etc/passwd | sort -u`