[Samba] smbpasswd script fails

[Jack Mendez]

my useradd script works exactly the same way, why does that one work and
not this one?
kinda new to awk so just want to learn, i will give this a shot though.

On Thu, December 1, 2005 9:02 pm, Herb Lewis said:
> You are sending all the output to a single bash shell so only one
> command gets executed. You need to figure out a way to execute
> the "awk | bash" for each line of users.csv
>
> Something like the following should work
>
> #! /bin/bash
>
> cat users.csv | while  read ;
> do
> echo $REPLY | awk 'BEGIN {FS=","}{print "smbpasswd -a -s
> "$1"\n"$3"\n"$3"\n"}' | /bin/bash
> done
>
>
> Jack Mendez wrote:
>> i am using a script with awk which only works to add the first user from
>> my csv file.
>> when running with out the -s switch the output seems to be correct using
>> echo to test.
>>
>> here is the script
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> cat users.csv |awk 'BEGIN {FS=","}{print "echo smbpasswd -a -s
>> "$1"\n"$3"\n"$3"\n"}' |/bin/bash
>>
>> this script successfuly adds the first user.
>> when using the -s switch.
>>
>> when i tried this same script with out the -s switch the output is like
>> this.
>> smbpasswd -a username
>> then bash complains
>> and smbpasswd wants a password
>> it does this for each user twice.
>> dunno
>> any ideas?
>>
>>
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