reading from 2 files in a while loop BASH SCRIPTING

Question

I have 2 files one named Group.csv Containing

thisisgroupone

and another named Users.csv

Testuser1,Testuser2,TestUser3

This my script so far:

# this part of the script will now add the created users into the created group!
while IFS=, read col1 col2 col3
do
        usermod  -g $READ GROUP.CSV$ $col1
        usermod  -g $READ GROUP.CSV$ $col2
        usermod  -g $READ GROUP.CSV$ $col3

    done < Users.csv

echo "Users now moved to new group sepcifyed in Group.csv"

Im trying to figure out a way to read both files at once to complete this statement.

Thanks =D

Does the Group.csv contain only 1 entry?

Guru
– Guru

2013-10-05 03:59:10 +00:00
Commented Oct 5, 2013 at 3:59 — Guru
– Guru, Commented Oct 5, 2013 at 3:59

William Pursell · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-05 14:33:55Z

4

One technique is:

while IFS=, read col1 col2 col3
do
        read -u 3 GROUP
        usermod  -g $GROUP $col1
        usermod  -g $GROUP $col2
        usermod  -g $GROUP $col3
done < Users.csv 3< Group.csv

or

while IFS=, read col1 col2 col3 && read -u 3 GROUP
do
        usermod  -g $GROUP $col1
        usermod  -g $GROUP $col2
        usermod  -g $GROUP $col3 
done < Users.csv 3< Group.csv

Neither of the above ensures that the files have the same number of lines, and you might want to check that.

edited Oct 5, 2013 at 14:33

answered Oct 5, 2013 at 4:01

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necromancer · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-05 03:58:58Z

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paste -d' ' Group.csv Users.csv will generate output such as:

Testgroup1 Testuser1 Testuser2 Testuser3
Testgroup2 Testuser4 Testuser5 Testuser6
...

so you can send the output of this to your script and it can read lines from a single file in which the first field of each line is the group and the remaining are users.

You can either use | to send the output of paste directly to your script. Or you can create a temporary file paste -d' ' Group.csv Users.csv > temp.csv and then use < temp.csv to read the file.

answered Oct 5, 2013 at 3:58

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