simple shell script question

[Jasen]

I'd like to create a simple script where I can easily create a new user, set them to a specific group, and set their password, all in one command.
something like

$ myscript newuser userpass

inside of "myscript" I'll just have pw useradd and etc.
The question is, how do I specify the arguments inside the script?
For instance, in a DOS batch file you'd use %1 for the first argument given. So inside the script you'd place %1 everywhere you want the first argument to be. What's the syntax for doing this in a shell script? I'm using csh, or bash, depending.

The second half of the question is, how can I pass the password to passwd so it doesn't ask. I thought maybe doing something like
echo newpass | passwd user
would work, but it does not.

I'm using a FreeBSD system, btw.

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[aixmurderer]

For BASH it's $1, $2 etc. instead of % in DOS. Not sure about csh.

No sure if you could script the passwd bit, it is an interactive command. You may need to use Expect to do that for you.

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