too many arguments

[robert3975]

Hi chaps As much as I would like to have an argument and kill this machine

Ive now hit a brick wall and really need some help!!


below is my script it doesn't seem to like if [ $display -eq 102 ] I think just I only want gid 102 to be changed and nothing else. If any one can help and point out how stupid i am feel free!!

oh the shell is bin/sh

./pass1.sh: [: too many arguments

echo "Please enter the username that you are wanting to change. Remember that
you must set the password to 123456"
read username
display=`grep $username /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $4}'`
if [ $display -eq 102 ]
then
passwd $username
passwd -f $username
else
echo "You don not have access to change this password. Please press ENTER to
exit"
read exit
fi

 

[SamBones]

I think maybe your [tt]grep $username /etc/passwd[/tt] is matching more than one line in the password file.

Try chaning that line to...

display=`grep "^${username}:" /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $4}'`

That will make it match from the beginning of the line to a colon.

Hope this helps.

 

[coffeysm]

Try two things:
1) add a -x after #!/bin/sh so you can see how far the script gets.

2) try putting $display and 102 in qoutes [ "$display" -eq "102" ].

 

[bfitzmai]

Be careful of the syntax of bourne shell scripting. There is a space after the [ and before the ]