Re: BASH + Best method of converting fields to variables

[Matt Morgan <matt morgan-fedora-list brooklynmuseum org>]

On 07/16/2004 08:35 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>
> > Guys,
> >
> >     Writing a batch_create_new_user script.
> > input is a file with this format
> >
> > Username:Full Name:Default Group:Default Shell:Home Directory:Password
> >  
> > and the using those fields ($1 $2 $3 etc) and passing then to the 
> > useradd program
> >
> > I'm having some trouble getting bash to get the positional fields 
> > into variables which I
> > can then plug into useradd
> >
> > eg:
> > pseudo code
> > for each line in input file
> >   do
> >     username=$1
> >     name=$2
> >     useradd -c "$2" $1
> >   done
> >
> > Can it be done using bash itself? (without calling awk)
>
>
> Not really, because bash delimits fields with spaces, not colons.

Use cut  with -d":" on each line to set the variables?