Read one line of a file

Chris F.A. Johnson · *nix forums Guru Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2268

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 at 16:53 GMT, Dale DeRemer wrote:

Dale DeRemer · *nix forums beginner Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 29

I'm updating the passwd file between 2 servers. Now, I need to create and
assign ownership to directories. mkuser is run on server AA. I copy the
passwd, group, and other appropriate files to sever BB. Now user jsmith is
new, and exists with a home directory of /home/jsmith. On sever BB,
directory /home/jsmith doesn't exist.
I've scripted it so I read the differences between the new and old passwd
file, and have the new lines in a file, (newusers.txt). When I awk for the
5th field to create the home directory, that works great. mkdir will handle
the multiple input lines. chown will not take the same type input. What I'd
like to do, is read the file, one line at a time, and assign one value to
newuserid and one value to newuserdir, and then:
mkdir $newuserdir
chown $newuserid $newuserdir
Any ideas?

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