Help needed writing a pkinvoice script

[Ric_]

OK... the wonderful PyKota box is running pretty smoothly now and I'm looking ahead to charging the departments. To do this, I thought that I would use pkinvoice to generate invoices for each staff user.

 

The staff users can be distinguished by the first character of the username being a letter rather than a number.

 

My idea was to export the users to a file which I could then read a line at a time and run the pkinvoice command for the username on each line. My problem is that I'm unsure how to read files in a bash script :oops:

[Geoff]

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

 

Part 5 Section 19 and Appendix E seem relevant.

[Ric_]

@Geoff: That is where I have been looking... I cannot seem to figure out a way of reading one line at a time though.

[Geoff]

It's a stream.

[Ric_]

@Geoff: Enlighten me to the syntax that I desire then

[mac_shinobi]

use a loop and in the do sectoin just get it to read the one line at a time and then go to the next line after reading it and make it do it until the end of the file

 

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/loops1.html

[Geoff]

I'm going to cheat and use awk (disclaimer: untested)..

 

cat userlist | awk {print $0 | pkinvoice}