Batch Folder Create

[Mark Cain]

Is there a way to create a set of folders based on my list of users.

I can export the users as a text list, but I have no idea how to then use this list to create a list of folders. Is this possible. Something like the createhomedir would be good, but I don’t want the folders to end up in the home folder location.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

[arekdreyer]

I’m not the most elegant script writer, but I modified a script
I already had for your purposes.

[code]
#!/bin/sh
#
# Create a folder for each user
#
# Arek Dreyer
# [email protected]
# Sun Mar 15 11:00:30 PDT 2009
#
#
# Search for users in each node.
# Note that if you search on the /Search/Users,
# you may run into duplicate users (like root 0)
# and this script’s assumptions fail.
#
# This script assumes that users under uid 1024 are system users; do not
# create any home folder for those users.
#
# Modify the variable, depending on which node you’re interested in.
#NODELIST=”/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1″
NODELIST=”/Local/Default /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1″
#NODELIST=”/LDAPv3/my.odm.com”
#
# Remove the following two lines if you don’t need
# the script to change ownership of the folders for you
# and don’t need to run the script as root.
#
echo “Note: $0 must be run as root”
[ $UID -eq 0 ] || exit 1
#
# Comment out the following two lines when you’re done testing.
/bin/mkdir /tmp/createfolder.$$
cd /tmp/createfolder.$$
#
for NODE in ${NODELIST}; do
echo “Processing node ${NODE}”
for USER in $(/usr/bin/dscl ${NODE} -list /Users) ; do
USERUID=$(/usr/bin/dscl ${NODE} -read /Users/${USER} \
UniqueID | /usr/bin/cut -d” ” -f2)
if [ ${USERUID} -gt 1024 ]; then
/bin/mkdir ${USER}
/usr/sbin/chown ${USER} ${USER}
echo “Created folder for ${USER}”
fi
done
done
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