Question

I have a cvs repository with different modules. The setup is always the same:

/data/cvs/<repo>/CVSROOT/passwd

I need to have a short script that loops over all repositories and performs this command:

grep "^iq" <repo>/CVSROOT/passwd | sort | uniq

The purpose is to have all usernames that start with the prefix “iq”.
The output will be a list with usernames, passwordhashes and the cvsmodule:

iqabcde:5!h8kdh2937slj:cvsabc

This output should be split by using “:” as terminator. I need to have 3 variables that I can access.

To be honest I don’t have a lot of knowledge in shell scripting. Would be great if anyone could help, because I think this is solvable.

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

I’m bored.

#!/bin/bash
for repo in /data/cvs/*
do
  IFS=: read username hash module < <(grep "^iq" "$repo"/CVSROOT/passwd | sort | uniq)
  echo "Name: $username, Hash: $hash, Module: $module"
done