Hi, i'm writting a krnshell script (sun solaris) that reads data that is entered to it and does an echo or something else, one section at a time. The data being entered would be something like this:
1111 <---- this being the begining of the section of info till it gets to the next
saxxxxx
saxxxxx
saxxxxx <--- this is the end of the section, this will vary like for instance 2's
2222 have only 2 items under it.
saxxxx
saxxxx
quit

#!/bin/ksh
echo " Line id: "
read lid
while [ $lid != "quit" ]
do
echo "$lid" >> file
read lid
done
for x in `grep yyyy file` yyyy <-- are the 4 digit numbers above one at a time
do
echo "$x"
for sn in `grep sa file`
do
echo "$sn"
done
done
rm file
rm file_b
exit

I think i tried it like this and i get 1111 then all the saxxx's below it. Not the way i need it, 1111 then saxx's below 1111 then 2222 then saxx's below it from the file. I hope this understandable. Any help appreciated. Thanks

As near as I can determine the output would be identical to the input and thus you do not need a script.