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#!/bin/bash



counter=2



while [ $counter -lt 19 ]

do







        username= head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f1 

        psswd= head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f2 

        full_name= head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f3 

        group= head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f4 

        second_group= head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f5 



        sudo useradd $username -m -g $group -s /bin/bash -c $full_name



        if [ second_group = LPGestionnaires ]

        then 

                usermod -a -G $second_group $user

        fi



        #echo "$username:$psswd" | chpasswd



        ((counter++))

done

echo Execution complete

The part where it says sudo useradd $username -m -g $group -s /bin/bash -c $full_name is the part that isn't working, my -g option isn't seeing the variable $group argument as an argument, when I execute my script it returns this: useradd: group '-s' does not exist

I'm pulling the data from a .csv file that is located correctly.

If anyone could help that would be great!

Thanks!

It seems you wanted to assign the result of the head ... command to the variable username here:

username= head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f1 

That is incorrect syntax. Correct it like this:

username=$(head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f1)

And then do the same for the other variables too, which all have the same problem.

Also, change the sudo useradd command like this:

sudo useradd "$username" -m -g "$group" -s /bin/bash -c "$full_name"

Variables used in command line arguments should usually be double-quoted to avoid word splitting.

The final code is this for anyone that is curious:

#!/bin/bash



counter=2



while [ $counter -lt 19 ]

do







        username=$(head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f1)

        psswd=$(head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f2)

        full_name=$(head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f3)

        group=$(head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f4)

        second_group=$(head -n $counter ./user_sheet.csv | tail -n 1 | cut -d ';' -f5)



        sudo useradd "$username" -m -g "$group" -s /bin/bash -c "$full_name"



        if [ "$second_group" = LPGestionnaires ]

        then 

                sudo usermod -a -G LPGestionnaires "$username"

        fi



        echo "$username:$psswd" | sudo chpasswd



        ((counter++))

done

echo Execution complete