Quote:

Originally Posted by h4wk say I have a file named phones in that file every line is like that lastname^firstname^phone how can I make a program in cshell

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Code:

grep NAME | tr '^' '\n'

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#!/bin/bash
i=1
for a in `cat namelist`

That may work if there are no spaces in the file; it will definitely fail if there are.

To read a file line by line:

Code:

while IFS= read -r line
do
  : whatever
done < FILENAME

do
        echo "Loop$i:"
        echo "+++++++"
        grep $a testfile | tr '^' '\n'

That will fail if there's a space in the search term, and grep and tr are both unnecessary.

Code:

case $line in
   *"$a"*) set -f; printf "%s\n" ${line//^/$'\n'} "---------------" ;;
esac

        echo "----------------------------"
        i=`expr $i + 1`

There is no need to use an external command to do integer arithmetic in any POSIX shell:

Code:

i=$(( $i + 1 ))

done

Quote:

Originally Posted by h4wk how can I get the line "-------------------------" to show between the results? thanks in advance!

Code:

awk -F: -v srch="$1" '
BEGIN { OFS = "\n"; ORS = "\n------------------\n" }
index($0,srch) { $1 = $1; print }' "$FILE"