Automation Using the Command Line

Owned by Deniz Oğuz
Last updated: Mar 18, 2023
2 min read

Sometimes you need to repeat the same command multiple times, for example you may need to create a lot of users, projects etc. In this situation instead of running the command manually with different inputs, you can put all the information in an csv file (or you can export it from another system that supports CSV files) and execute the command in a loop. It sounds long but actually it is a single liner.

Assuming that the CSV file has the format:

displayName1,emailAddress1,password1,username1 displayName2,emailAddress2,password2,username2 ....

You can use the following one-liner command in the terminal to create users for each line in the CSV file:

while IFS=',' read -r displayName emailAddress password username || [ -n "$displayName" ]; do jira user create --displayName "$displayName" --emailAddress "$emailAddress" --password "$password" --username "$username"; done < input.csv

Here's how this command works:

  • while IFS=',' read -r displayName emailAddress password username || [ -n "$displayName" ]; do reads each line from the CSV file and sets the values of displayName, emailAddress, password and username variables based on the comma-separated values in the line.

  • jira user create --displayName "$displayName" --emailAddress "$emailAddress" --password "$password" --username "$username" invokes the jira user create command with appropriate parameters for each line in the CSV file.

  • done < input.csv specifies the input file for the while loop. Here, input.csv is the name of the CSV file.

Note: You need to replace input.csv with the actual name of your CSV file.

This will create users from the file one by one and output user properties as it creates them.

Account Id Account Type Email Address Display Name Active Time Zone Locale ──────────────────────── ──────────── ───────────────────── ──────────── ────── ─────────────── ────── 647629232c717c0510823122 atlassian example@gmail.com Walter White true Europe/Helsinki en_US Account Id Account Type Email Address Display Name Active Time Zone Locale ──────────────────────── ──────────── ───────────────────── ──────────── ────── ─────────────── ────── 9383737967102fc717c0510a atlassian example2@gmail.com Heisenberg true Europe/Helsinki en_US