Hi, I've been running code which very frequently calls books.csv. e.g:

Except, I'm trying to move away from using temporary files or frequently calling books.csv to improve efficiency. So I tried something like

Needless to say, it explodes (giving me about 40 lines of: "grep [data here] no such file or directory"), that's before I even try and save my grep output as a variable. Don't suppose anyone knows what path I need to be taking? Thanks in advance

Set your variable as follows:
bookfile=`cat books.csv`

Then your grep should get every line that has the word "horror" in it. If you want specific fields from each line, you'll need to do something similar to:

bookname=`echo $bookfile | awk -F"," '{print $1}'`

This assumes the fields are separated by commas (true csv format) and that the first field is the bookname.

Ahh thanks, but I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be doing this without the awk function.

Thank you loads!!