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I'm writing a Bash script. My problem is I want to read from the text file line-by-line and split the line by a character. I want pure Bash code.

Let's say I have this in the text file:

Format: (name;username;code)

John Doe;johnDoe;534092
John Dor;johnDor;923845
Joan Doe;Joan;232423

I want to know how to split the string (line) by character ";".

I need to know this because of what I want to do next: I want to read this text file and for every name in the file make a new user (with the same home directory as name), the password should be the code, and default should be Bash.

I'm reading the file with while read line ....

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while IFS=';' read -r fullName userName password; do
    useradd ... # $fullName, $userName, and $password are available
done < users.txt
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John Kugelman
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  • @JohnDoeTheOne I tried this verbatim at the command line and it works. Make sure you don't have any typos (like `$fullname` vs. `$fullName`). – John Kugelman Apr 03 '13 at 20:17