Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:38:56PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> I have a txt file in this format:
> 
> joe blow
> john smith
> john doe
> 
> I would like to use "newusers" to add about 500 accounts to my system,
> but how do I quickly make the txt file look like this:
> 
> joe_blow:password:1001:1001:,,,/home/joe_blow:/bin/bash
> john_smith:password:1002:1002:,,,/home/john_smith:bin/bash

Write a script to read stdin and print to stdout.

#!/usr/bin/perl
$pid=1000;
while (<STDIN>) {
        chop;
        $pid++;
        ($n1, $n2) = split / /;
        print $n1,"_",$n2,":password:",$pid,
                  ":",$pid,",,,/home/",$n1,"_",$n2,":/bin/bash\n"
}


I bet bash, sed, awk, python,... can do same thing...
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