Question

I want to create BASH file to create 50 users with while.
But i got some problems when i run it.

limite=51
num=1

while [$numero != $limite]
do
  echo -n 'enter your name: ' "$num" ; read name
  sudo useradd $name
  num=$(($num + 1))
done

the problems come from line 1 and line 4

I don’t know why!?

WEll, i have this and it works

limite=51
num=1

while [ $num != $limite ] ; do
  echo -n 'enter your name: ' "$num" ; read name
  sudo useradd $name
  num=$(($num + 1))   
done

Thx to you

Answer 1

[ is actually a command so it needs a space after it, line 4 should be

while [ $numero != $limite ]

# See it's actually a command
$ which [        
/usr/bin/[

Just like catfile1 would complain so does [$numero, do man test for more information or even man bash.

Also if this is the complete script what is $numero, should it be $num?