[linux] script question

[rtlibby at u.washington.edu]

Well I'm sure you'll get a lot of answers froim people who are actuallly 
competent with bash scripting, but I think all you need to do is put ` ` 
around the command, i.e. `adduser -u $ID $USER`  Note that those aren't 
apostrophes.

~ryan

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:10:11 -0800, Tristan Burch 
<tburch at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> I'm trying to write a script that will read the username and userid from 
> a
> text file and then add that user to the machine with the specified id. 
> I'm
> kinda new to scripting, so I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing wrong. 
> Here's
> what I have:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
>
>
> NEW_USERS="test.txt"
>
>
>
> cat ${NEW_USERS} | \
>
> while read USER ID
>
> do
>
>         adduser -u $ID $USER
>
>         echo Added User:$USER - ID:$ID
>
> done
>
>
>
> when I run it, I get this:
>
> 'dduser: invalid numeric argument `551
>
> Added User:tburch - ID:551
>
>
>
> I'm not sure why it's chopping off the "a" in adduser, but I think it has
> something to do with how the variables get evaluated (?). Any 
> suggestions?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Tristan Burch
>  <mailto:tburch at u.washington.edu> tburch at u.washington.edu
>
>
>



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