Re: [CentOS] OT: bash script for passwd and shadow manipulation

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:56:11PM -0500, Erick Perez wrote:

So far, cut returns the name up to the space, so in this case it will return Kimaura and not Kimaura Thomas.

No, it doesn't.

# for linia in `cat /etc/passwd`

This is your mistake. Think about it for linia in `cat /etc/passwd` do echo Line just read: $linia done

That shows what is going wrong; the "in" is splitting at the white space.

What you should be doing cat /etc/passwd | while read linia instead.

Even better would be while read linia do .... done < /etc/passwd

Or, to rewrite the whole program in a one line awk script:

awk -F: '{printf("zmprov ma %s@'$domain' displayName %s\n",$1,$5)}' /etc/passwd > $file