Hi all;

I'm receiving great answers from this board.Thanks alot for anyone who replys to my questions.I'm new in unix shell scripting and also having alot of questions

I have a new one.

I'm trying to create a little script for the root menu that should be able to add a new user.The system has 4 different groups such as marketing,sales. ..I also have a db file that has

EmployeeNumber, FirstName, LastName, Location, Department
************************************************** *******
12345, Tiger, Woods, Key West, Marketing
12341, Flip, Wilson, Los Angeles, Entertainment
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My little script should be able to:
*Prompt for the name of the data file
*shoul create user accounts for each user
*Users will belong to one of: mktg, ent, trade, or mgmt groups, based on the Department field
*Their usernames will be first_last based on the FirstName and LastName fields.
*They will all be created with Bash Shell defaults, under /home with the default /etc/skel template files included in their new home directories.
*Display the records for the new users ONLY from /etc/passwd
*Return to the menu

Can anyone let me know where I am suppose to start from?
Belinda

You'll need to use (it's just suggestions, it may have several solutions ):

Loop ... Until : 'while' or 'until'
Prompt : 'read'
For every .. End For : 'while' 'IFS' 'read' 'continue'
Verify user : grep /etc/password
Verify file or dir : 'test -e' 'test -d'
Create home dir : 'mkdir'
Create user : 'adduser' or other system specific command
Copy template : 'cp'
Search and display : 'grep'