Carlo Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> looking for a script to add users including homedirs, it also needs to 
> check if the user already exist.
> 
> Thanks !
> 

Hmm, well using the correct arguments to useradd should do what you
want. If all you want to do is check the existence of a user before
running useradd then something as trivial as the following should
suffice:

if [ -d /home/$userarg ]; then
     echo "/home/$userarg already exists"
     exit 1;
fi

If the directory doesn't exist, then just run useradd with the "-m"
argument to create a home directory.

Chris
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