Question

I’m writing some scripts to manage users with specifics quotas on a server.

So, to apply a quota like 10GB to all the users in the group quota10, I’m using “setquota -p”, but I have several groups.

So I made a script to manage all users from all groups.

#!/bin/zsh
groups=(1002 1007)
for gid in $groups
    echo $gid
    echo $(awk -F: '$4 == gid {print $1}' gid=$gid /etc/passwd)

But when I execute it, there is only the last group which give me users in this group.

/etc/passwd

kimino:x:1010:1002::/home/kimino:/bin/bash
kiminoo:x:1011:1007::/home/kiminoo:/bin/bash

/etc/group

quota10:x:1002:
quota20:x:1007:

Output of my script

# ./apply_quota_on_users.zsh
1002
1007
kiminoo

Do you have any idea about what’s wrong ?

Answer 1

You have to wrap your functions in a block:

for gid in $groups
do
    echo $gid
    echo $(awk -F: '$4 == gid {print $1}' gid=$gid /etc/passwd)
done