Script to create multiple directories under users homes

shawnbishop · 03-30-2006, 04:16 AM

Good Day

I am having a bit of a problem with a script ( in other words,all attempts have failed :-) )

I am looking to create 3 new directories under everybodies home directory like this.

/home/user - tmp
- docs
- pdf

/home/user2 - tmp
- docs
- pdf

I have about a thousand users to do this to,and I dont want to manually add all these directories.Can somebody tell me how I could do this via a script

Cheers

Shawn

/bin/bash · 03-30-2006, 05:10 AM

WARNING: I did this on cygwin so it might need a little tweeking.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
cd /home
for i in *;do
USER=`grep $i /etc/passwd|cut -d: -f3,4`
cd $i
mkdir tmp doc pdf
chown $USER tmp doc pdf
cd ../
done

shawnbishop · 03-30-2006, 05:22 AM

hi /bin/bash

Great thank you that work fantastically...

Cheers

homey · 03-30-2006, 05:47 AM

This also seems to work on my FC5 box.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
for i in $(cat /etc/passwd | grep /home |cut -d: -f6); do
mkdir $i/{tmp,doc,pdf}
done

/bin/bash · 03-30-2006, 08:11 AM

You're welcome, HTH.