I'm attempting to create a Perl script that will:

Take the contents of the usernames.tmp file
(usernames.tmp is created from an awk one-liner ran against /etc/passwd)
Take one line at a time and pass it to the su command as a users name.

This should go on until there is no more name to process

However there is one tiny problem, this is my first exposure to
Perl scripting! And I have no idea how to do this. The code below
is my full heated attempt at clobbering together code found around
the office.


Any SOLID pointers, references to functions/methodologies... would
be a real treat!!

Thanks in advance!

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-Adam B.

forgive me, but you don't need a combo of perl and awk for this.
you certainly never need awk and perl as perl is pretty much a superset of awk.

Billy,

Thanks for the input, however I'm going to keep with using awk to create the file before hand because I've already created the file.

However, your code, I have almost no idea what it is up to.

But I'm guessing...
CODE:
cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd

is similar to:

CODE:
awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd > /tmp/usernames.tmp;
(this is not 100% correct, but quite close to what I've used)


This magically defines "user" as something, and then 1/2 magically read the file all the while in a while-loop.

CODE:
while read user ;


And this is a "better" way to do my version of exec?
CODE:
do echo su $user

If I am right then this does almost everything I'm trying to do; but it does leave out the more important part, "magically" running script2. That is unless I would be able to append a

CODE:
cd;/path/to/script2;

to the end of the do echo line.


--
-Adam

the echo is not important it was an illustration.

you can put anything you like in the loop obviously, even su without an echo