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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