10-03-2007
Ksh script - Design ? - Search file and set variables
Hi -
I'm trying to think of a clever way to write a shell script (trying to stay w/ ksh as that's what I know the best...) that will resolve the following problem:
Problem - On a daily basis I have to email folks who are on-call to remind them. I was hoping to script this out so I could have a file w/ a pattern similiar to:
fileX -
Oct 3:jerry:mark
Oct 4:tim:stan
fileY - jerry:jerry@foo.com
mark:mark@foo.com
tim:tim@foo.com
peter:stan@foo.com
My first idea is to have the script
Set a varaible for the date using something like - 'date |nawk '{print $2 &3}'
Grep fileX searching for date variable - then set variableA with the first name and variableB with the second name for that date - not sure how to do this
Then take variableA and look for a match in fileY - This will set another varialbe - variableZ
Finally, run a mailto command using varialbe Z
Take this script and add it to cron to run daily.
If it's easier, rather than using their names in the file, I can set it up w/ their email addresses - that shouldn't be too much extra work to do.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Regards,
littlefrog
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IDLE(1) General Commands Manual IDLE(1)
NAME
IDLE - An Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python
SYNTAX
idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] [ file ...]
idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] ( -c cmd | -r file ) [ arg ...]
idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] - [ arg ...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the idle command. This manual page was written for Debian because the original program does not have a
manual page. For more information, refer to IDLE's help menu.
IDLE is an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python. IDLE is based on Tkinter, Python's bindings to the Tk widget set. Features are
100% pure Python, multi-windows with multiple undo and Python colorizing, a Python shell window subclass, a debugger. IDLE is cross-plat-
form, i.e. it works on all platforms where Tk is installed.
OPTIONS
-h Print this help message and exit.
-n Run IDLE without a subprocess (see Help/IDLE Help for details).
The following options will override the IDLE 'settings' configuration:
-e Open an edit window.
-i Open a shell window.
The following options imply -i and will open a shell:
-c cmd Run the command in a shell, or
-r file
Run script from file.
-d Enable the debugger.
-s Run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP before anything else.
-t title
Set title of shell window.
A default edit window will be bypassed when -c, -r, or - are used.
[arg]* and [file]* are passed to the command (-c) or script (-r) in sys.argv[1:].
EXAMPLES
idle Open an edit window or shell depending on IDLE's configuration.
idle foo.py foobar.py
Edit the files, also open a shell if configured to start with shell.
idle -est "Baz" foo.py
Run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP, edit foo.py, and open a shell window with the title "Baz".
idle -c "import sys; print sys.argv" "foo"
Open a shell window and run the command, passing "-c" in sys.argv[0] and "foo" in sys.argv[1].
idle -d -s -r foo.py "Hello World"
Open a shell window, run a startup script, enable the debugger, and run foo.py, passing "foo.py" in sys.argv[0] and "Hello World" in
sys.argv[1].
echo "import sys; print sys.argv" | idle - "foobar"
Open a shell window, run the script piped in, passing '' in sys.argv[0] and "foobar" in sys.argv[1].
SEE ALSO
python(1).
AUTHORS
Various.
21 September 2004 IDLE(1)