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By Cloudy_Cat

Heya people,
So my script is one of those make-user-scripts, making a bunch of directories in the home folder and copying some files over into the new directories.
However, part of the thing my script need to do is check the home folder if a username matches with a directory which already exists.
e.g. if the username ‘user1’ has a directory in the home folder under the same name, it will prompt the user if he/she wants to keep or delete the directory (and its contents) before moving on with the script.

Here is the part of the script which does this:

Code:

cat $1 | while read line; do 
    username=$line

    if [ -d $4/$username ];

        then

        echo WARNING username $username already has a directory.

        read -p "Would you like to KEEP or DELETE?" answer
        if [ "$answer" == "DELETE" ];

            then

            rm -fr $4/$username

        elif [ "$answer" == "KEEP" ];

            then

            echo "Keeping directory $username"

        else

            echo "Unknown answer assuming keeping file"

        fi
    fi

done

Where:
$1 = path to the username_list file
$4 = path to the home directory for user creation

Now as the thread title suggests, the problem is the read line is not prompting for user input.
I suspect it may be something to do with the fact I’m piping via the while loop, but I don’t know I’m just a newbie to all this. Can anyone suggest a solution to this?

Thanks in advance,

Cloudy

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