[prog] user bash script

Noir acknak_halflife at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Aug 12 17:23:14 EST 2005


I am writing a bash script to adduser which will first
check if the u_name exist in /etc/passwd file. My
code:

uname="`echo $uname | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`"

avail="`cat /etc/passwd | grep ^$uname:`"

if [ -e "$avail" ]; then

echo "The name already exist Please try again";

exit 1;

fi

It gives an errror that username already exist but
then goes on to add the user.


	
	
		
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