>>I think it has something to do with the piping interfering with the If test.
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>Nest an if? I don't think I would ever attempt operations during an if in bash. How about using Perl?

I was thinking about using Python. I used that on another task and it worked beautifully and was easy to learn (which is a necessary requirement for a 60 year old brain :)


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>>When I remove the test and run the script everything works with one exception:
>>useradd won't add a user that has only a 5 digit number for a name. You can
>>add users with integer names using Kmuser, but I haven't found a way to get
>>useradd to accept them...
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>Km... what? What's kmuser?

It is a KDE GUI front end to manipulate users and groups. Very nice.


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