newuser script help

[Nick D'Angelo]

Script gurus,

I have a script that I run to add new users but if the username has a double letter, ie mccullou for Mccullou, it drops the second letter.

Any suggestions? By the way, I have attached it for your review.

Suggestions are appreciated,

Thanks,

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Nick:

Your problem is your your tr -s "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"

Drop the -s and try again.

Clay

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Nick
Use this in you script

user= `echo $1 |tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`

this will convert $1=username in to lowercase and will not remove any character.

Sachin

[James R. Ferguson]

Nick:

The problem is the '-s' option to 'tr' You are squeezing multiple instances of the characters you are translating to a single instance.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Kelli Ward]

Hi,
I admit it, I'm not a script guru, far from it, but I love to tinker. Although, I have not had time to try you script, I did look at it.
I think your problem may be stemming from the uniq command in line 10. Check your man pages, I think you may need to add an option to get it to recognize double characters.
Or you could alway use SAM ; )
Hope this helps,
K

[Magdi KAMAL]

Hi ,

As said before, delete the tr 's option "-s" in the following line:

user=`echo $1 | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"

and it will work !

Magdi

[Nick D'Angelo]

Thank you all for your answers.

I was not able to login earlier due to login problems with the HP authentication server.

Nickd

[Praveen Bezawada]

Hi
You can use typeset

typeset -u $UPPERCASE=$LOWERCASE

...BPK...