[prog] user bash script

[Danijel Tasov]

Noir wrote:
> 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]"`"

And then simply do:

if id "$user" ; then
  echo "user already exists" >&2
  exit 1
fi


                                        -DaTa
                                        Danijel Tasov
                                        <dt at vosat.de>
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