[GLLUG] shell script question

[Ben Pfaff]

Mike Rambo <mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us> writes:

> I'm trying to wite a bash shell script that will place a configuration
> file in each users home directory. I can come up with a list of targets
> by using...
> 
> ls /home | grep drwx | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \  -f 2

This looks fragile; e.g., take my own /home:

blp@pfaff:~(0)$ ls -l /home
total 16
drwxrwxr-x   89 blp      blp          8192 Jul 12 09:40 blp/
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Jun 13  2001 teams/
drwxr-xr-x    2 timd     timd         4096 Jul  6  2001 timd/

Now consider the lines that don't contain any colons at all.

What's wrong with `/home/*'?

> ...which I can direct to a file or whatever. Is there a way to take the
> resulting list and assign or use each item sequentially as a variable in
> a statement something like...
> 
> cp file-i-want /home/$TARGET
> 
> ...to copy this file to potentially many user directories at one time?

for d in `...your command...'; do cp file-i-want /home/$d; done
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