Posted on 10-16-2020 10:00 AM
I am using dscl to pull membership information from an AD group. I break the response down to a series of lines containing computer names or user names; this is the result of passing the dscl output through a pipeline. I have verified that the pipeline is extracting the information I need. It's just this final step...
At the end of the pipeline I want to use some method to return lines containing the values in either of two variables: $myHostName or $myUserName (which are determined elsewhere in the script).
I've tried things like:
grep -e $myHostName -e $myUserName grep -E -o "$myHostname|$myUserName"
Plus a bunch of other things the list of which is getting frustratingly long.
I'm not insisting on grep, I just need to be able to pull lines that contain $myHostName or $myUserName; that seemed to me to be a reasonable approach.
However, I am not having any luck.
Can anyone provide suggestions for me to try?
Thank you in advance!
Posted on 10-16-2020 11:11 AM
If I think I get what you want I'd do something like this
#!/bin/sh
containsHostName=$( echo "${fullList}" | grep "$myHostName")
containsUserName=$( echo "${fullList}" | grep "$myUserName")
containsEither="$containsHostName $containsUserName"
Probably not the best solution. But I think it'll get you what you want.