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From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@chain.iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Adding 700+ users with one or two commands 
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Jan L. Peterson wrote:

>while read line
>  do eval set $line
>     adduser -batch $1 $2 "" "$4" $5 -shell nologin
>  done < yourfile

Great. It worked :)

I ended up using
while read line; 
do eval set $line; 
adduser -batch $1 "" "" $3 "$4" $5 -shell nologin; 
done < input_file

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