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You seem on the ball so I won't spoon-feed you a script, but here are some pointers:

1. You're using awk incorrectly. Try this instead:

    awk -F: -v uid_min=${UID_MIN:-1000} '$3%2==0 && $3>uid_min && $3!=65534{print $6}' /etc/passwd
   

2. There's no need for cat.

3. Use your awk output as the input to your read loop, ie. while read USER_HOME_DIR ; do ... ; done < $(awk...).

4. Add a check in your awk program to limit it to UID's above 1000, or you will inadvertently perform your copy for many system users.

5. Note that in #1 above, I changed your $1 to $6 in order to pull the user's home directory instead of the user's name.

6. I just noticed on my debian machine that there exists a 'nobody' user with UID 65534, so you may need to account for that. I modified the awk statement in #1 accordingly.

7. As per user Jeff Schaller's comment, I've modified the awk program to account for a custom minimum UID. The form ${UID_MIN:-1000} means set the value as 1000 if it would otherwise be null or unset.

You seem on the ball so I won't spoon-feed you a script, but here are some pointers:

1. You're using awk incorrectly. Try this instead:

    awk -F: -v uid_min=${UID_MIN:-1000} '$3%2==0 && $3>uid_min && $3!=65534{print $6}' /etc/passwd
   

2. There's no need for cat.

3. Use your awk output as the input to your read loop, ie. while read USER_HOME_DIR ; do ... ; done < $(awk...). Understand that this will mean that only one awk process needs to be spawned, while your original script spawns a separate awk process for each line, so this is much more efficient.

4. Add a check in your awk program to limit it to UID's above 1000, or you will inadvertently perform your copy for many system users.

5. Note that in #1 above, I changed your $1 to $6 in order to pull the user's home directory instead of the user's name.

6. I just noticed on my debian machine that there exists a 'nobody' user with UID 65534, so you may need to account for that. I modified the awk statement in #1 accordingly.

7. As per user Jeff Schaller's comment, I've modified the awk program to account for a custom minimum UID. The form ${UID_MIN:-1000} means set the value as 1000 if it would otherwise be null or unset.

You seem on the ball so I won't spoon-feed you a script, but here are some pointers:

1. You're using awk incorrectly. Try this instead:

    awk -F: -v uid_min=${UID_MIN:-1000} '$3%2==0 && $3>uid_min && $3!=65534{print $6}' /etc/passwd
   

2. There's no need for cat.

3. Use your awk output as the input to your read loop, ie. while read USER_HOME_DIR ; do ... ; done < $(awk...).

4. Add a check in your awk program to limit it to UID's above 1000, or you will inadvertently perform your copy for many system users.

5. Note that in #1 above, I changed your $1 to $6 in order to pull the user's home directory instead of the user's name.

6. I just noticed on my debian machine that there exists a 'nobody' user with UID 65534, so you may need to account for that. I modified the awk statement in #1 accordingly.

7. As per user Jeff Schaller's comment, I've modified the awk program to account for a custom minimum UID. The form ${UID_MIN:-1000} means set the value as 1000 if it would otherwise be null or unset.

You seem on the ball so I won't spoon-feed you a script, but here are some pointers:

1. You're using awk incorrectly. Try this instead:

    awk -F: -v uid_min=${UID_MIN:-1000} '$3%2==0 && $3>uid_min && $3!=65534{print $6}' /etc/passwd
   

2. There's no need for cat.

3. Use your awk output as the input to your read loop, ie. while read USER_HOME_DIR ; do ... ; done < $(awk...).

4. Add a check in your awk program to limit it to UID's above 1000, or you will inadvertently perform your copy for many system users.

5. Note that in #1 above, I changed your $1 to $6 in order to pull the user's home directory instead of the user's name.

6. I just noticed on my debian machine that there exists a 'nobody' user with UID 65534, so you may need to account for that. I modified the awk statement in #1 accordingly.

7. As per user Jeff Schaller's comment, I've modified the awk program to account for a custom minimum UID. The form ${UID_MIN:-1000} means set the value as 1000 if it would otherwise be null or unset.

You seem on the ball so I won't spoon-feed you a script, but here are some pointers:

1. You're using awk incorrectly. Try this instead:

    awk -F: '$3%2==0 && $3>1000 && $3!=65534{print $6}' /etc/passwd
   

2. There's no need for cat.

3. Use your awk output as the input to your read loop, ie. while read USER_HOME_DIR ; do ... ; done < $(awk...).

4. Add a check in your awk program to limit it to UID's above 1000, or you will inadvertently perform your copy for many system users.

5. Note that in #1 above, I changed your $1 to $6 in order to pull the user's home directory instead of the user's name.

6. I just noticed on my debian machine that there exists a 'nobody' user with UID 65534, so you may need to account for that. I modified the awk statement in #1 accordingly.

You seem on the ball so I won't spoon-feed you a script, but here are some pointers:

1. You're using awk incorrectly. Try this instead:

    awk -F: -v uid_min=${UID_MIN:-1000} '$3%2==0 && $3>uid_min && $3!=65534{print $6}' /etc/passwd
   

2. There's no need for cat.

3. Use your awk output as the input to your read loop, ie. while read USER_HOME_DIR ; do ... ; done < $(awk...).

4. Add a check in your awk program to limit it to UID's above 1000, or you will inadvertently perform your copy for many system users.

5. Note that in #1 above, I changed your $1 to $6 in order to pull the user's home directory instead of the user's name.

6. I just noticed on my debian machine that there exists a 'nobody' user with UID 65534, so you may need to account for that. I modified the awk statement in #1 accordingly.

7. As per user Jeff Schaller's comment, I've modified the awk program to account for a custom minimum UID. The form ${UID_MIN:-1000} means set the value as 1000 if it would otherwise be null or unset.