Re: deleting a user name from a file

Lokeey wrote:
> 
> Rob thanks for your input. Yes the * is a typo or pasted somehow. Rushed
> and wasn't paying attention, and worked on it some more after I sent
> that out and thought about how the ARGV and my other syntax, it didn't
> make sense to me. But I saw your comment just now and had already taken
> out the ARGV. Here's what I have so far. I'm just not sure how to lay
> out my loop, (while or if)
> 
> /#!/usr/bin/perl -w

Always

  use strict;
  use warnings;

and Perl will tell you about many simple mistakes that you may have made.

> # this script removes a user from sudoers file
> 
> print "Enter Site-ID: "; $site = <STDIN>;
>    chomp($site);
> 
> print "\nEnter the username to remove from /$site/local/etc/sudoers: " ;
> $user = <STDIN>;
>    chomp($user);
> 
> # confirm user to be removed
> 
> print "\n$user will be removed from /$site/local/etc/suders. ";
> 
>   open FILE, "@$site/local/etc/sudoers" or die
>   "cannot open sudoers for $sites. ";/
> 
> *### not exactly sure how to lay out my loop or if i should use while or
> if statements###*
> /
> print "Done! User $user has been removed from $site sudoers. \n";/

OK, but you've now removed everything to do with the real purpose of the
program. I know it's tempting to write at least /something/, but all you've done
is to pretend to gather parameters for a procedure that you haven't yet defined.
Throw all this away, which is nothing to do with what the program really does,
and write


  use strict;
  use warnings;

  my $site = 'sss';
  my $user = 'uuu';

and then start to fill the rest out. I gave you many hints in my previous post
so please look at that again. The first thing is to define what your program
does and what command-line parameters it expects, so I think you should start by
writing the usage text as I showed:

die <<USAGE unless @ARGV;
  This program should be run with command-line parameters like this:
    :
  And does this:
    :
USAGE

and change that text until you are happy to commit to it and make your program
do what it says it does.

Rob

• deleting a user name from a file by Lokeey
• Re: deleting a user name from a file by Rob Dixon
• Re: deleting a user name from a file by Lokeey
• Re: deleting a user name from a file by Rob Dixon