Hi,
I have a file with usernames, and the comment section, e.g :
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I need to add these users into a server. Is it possible to use a script to create the users, together with the comment ?
From the commandline to add one user, the command will be :
useradd -m user -c "comment"
How do I do the same, for multiple users above, using script(automation)?
Yes, it is possible.
The simplest way, I would say, is to use a while loop with a read, setting the field separator (IFS) to : to get each field from the file, and inside the loop run the useradd command.
Different approach:
sed 's/^/echo useradd -m /; s/;/,/; s/:/ -c \\"/; s/$/\\"/' file
redirect into a file and run / source that, or pipe the result into a shell. Remove the echo if happy with the proposal. Unfortunately, that sole ; in the comment will spoil the shell input and thus must be removed.