Re: user adding

Sorry for the previous empty email... still sleeping ;-)

> I have a file with 50 lines (simple text file with 4 fields in each
> row)
> abc 123 acds qwertt
> 
> now what i want is add 50 users with last field of
> each row as user name and first 3 fields as gcos (user
> info)
> how can i do it with automated scripts ?
> 

Try this:

#perl -nwe'($a,$b,$c,$user)=split;print "useradd -c \"$a $b $c\" $user\n";' FILENAME

it will convert your data into system commands. Beware of quotes in the
datafile, though.

HTH,

Ant9000

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