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Old 04-29-2001, 07:36 PM   #1
delthrin
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how would i do this using vi in the bash shell, suing "if then"?? I'm completely lost

Ok, I want you to write a script that will take a user name as input and if
the user name exist, print out each of the 7 fields used to represent the
user's account. Have a brief description of each field. The script must
include comments that explain how the script works. The script must use
positional parameters and check to make sure the correct number of arguments
exist.

./userinfo coleman

user name: coleman
password: x
User ID: 500
Group ID: 500
Comment: Chris Coleman
Home Dir: /home/coleman
Shell: /bin/bash

 
Old 04-29-2001, 09:24 PM   #2
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The post is screaming school assignment, but it was so easy that I found it difficult to provide examples of what you will need to check for while trying not to write the script for you. Here is my poor attempt:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

PASSWORD_FILE="/etc/passwd"

if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
   USER_NAME="$1"
   REGX_USER_NAME="^$USER_NAME:"
   PASS_ENTRY=`cat $PASSWORD_FILE | grep $REGX_USER_NAME`

   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
      # ...
      USER_ID=`echo $PASS_ENTRY | cut -d':' -f3`
      # ...

   else
      echo "Username: $USER_NAME not found"
   fi

else
   echo "Usage: ScriptName username"
fi

exit
[*]$# is the number of parameters passed into the script[*]$1 is the first parameter[*]The regular expression was needed to make sure that grep only found the username at the begining of the line.[*]$? is the result from the last command run (grep). If it's zero then grep did find a match.[*]Read the man page for cut, it's simple.[*]Remember that you can use bash -x scriptname to debug the script.

 
  


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