I need help in what to do with a bash script? I'm trying to run a command to output the data from a table and then insert it into commands. Looping for each row of data.
For example the output data from a table:
Code:
10 John house
20 Jane apt
30 Joe townhome
Then I need to take the output from the data and insert it into another command, so for example my output would look like:
Code:
-----
The number of the person is 10
The name of the person is John
John lives in a house
-----
The number of the person is 20
The name of the person is Jane
Jane lives in a apt
-----
The number of the person is 30
The name of the person is Joe
Joe lives in a townhome
The code I have is:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------"
DATA=`cat data.txt`
for i in $DATA; do
NUM=$(echo $i |awk '{print $1}');
NAME=$(echo $i |awk '{print $2}');
LOC=$(echo $i |awk '{print $3}');
echo "The number of the person is $NUM"
echo "The name of the person is $NAME"
echo "$NAME lives in a $LOC"
echo
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------"
echo
done
The output is:
Code:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The number of the person is 10
The name of the person is
lives in a
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The number of the person is John
The name of the person is
lives in a
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The number of the person is house
The name of the person is
lives in a
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The number of the person is 20
The name of the person is
lives in a
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The number of the person is Jane
The name of the person is
lives in a
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The number of the person is apt
The name of the person is
lives in a
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The number of the person is 30
The name of the person is
lives in a
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The number of the person is Joe
The name of the person is
lives in a
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The number of the person is townhome
The name of the person is
lives in a
----------------------------------------------------------------
Can anyone help or point me where to go on how to do this?
Thanks!
