#! /usr/bin/bash if [ -z "${1}" ] then echo "What is your intended username?" read username echo "What is your password" read password #A user can be passed in as a command line argument echo "$username user account being created." #A user is created with the name of command line argument sudo useradd -m $username #A password can be parsed in as a command line argument. sudo chpasswd <<< $username:$password sleep 2 echo "If you want to delete the user then pass 'del' and username in command line argument. e.g: ./create-user.sh del username" else sudo userdel -rf "${2}" sleep 2 echo "${2} user account successfully deleted." exit 0 fi