[GLLUG] shell script question

[Melson, Paul]

Sure.  Try something like this:

#!/bin/sh
HOMEDIR=`find /home -type d -maxdepth 1`
for TARGET in $HOMEDIR
do
  cp /etc/skel/.config $TARGET/.config
done

Hope that helps!

PaulM

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Rambo [mailto:mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us]
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 12:21 PM
To: GLLUG List
Subject: [GLLUG] shell script question


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

...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?

Thanks


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Mike Rambo
mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us
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