Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:50:54 +1000 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: One for the script gurus Message-ID: <200108222350.JAA20794@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> of "Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:36:49 %2B0300." <20010822163649.B98728@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Hi!
One of the things I like about the Bourne shell derivatives is that
you can feed a loop with multiple values:
awk -F: '{ print $1, $3, $4, $6 }' | while read user uid gid home; do
# You may want to filter out some values here
# such as: users with a uid < 1000 or > 32000;
# or users with a home directory of /
echo "Making home for ${user}
# For anything we haven't pruned:
mkdir ${home}
# Do you need to copy any files in? If so, do it here.
# For example:
cd /usr/share/skel
for file in `ls | awk -F. '{ print $2 }'`; do
cp dot.${file} ${home}/.${file}
done
# And then, maybe...
chown -R ${uid}:${gid} ${home}
# And finally, if necessary, "lock" the directory
# by setting whatever mode you desire
done
Of course, there are some minor efficiencies that could be made, like
creating the file list from /usr/share/skel outside the loop and so
forth, but given that this is basically a "once off" type thing I'd
like to maximise readability.
Cheers
Tony
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