11-13-2008
Case statement/sed command
The file dbnames.txt has 5 columns, what i'm trying to do is that when the fifth column equals A, store in the variable "access" the word, "admin access". If it equals B, then "business access" etc. I think their is a problem with my sed command, because it is not substibstituting the words correctly. Any ideas?
thanks,
ross_one
tput cup 13 0; echo "Enter your name:"
tput cup 13 16; read name
location=`find dbnames.txt`
x=`grep -c "$name" "$location"`
if [ $x -gt 0 ]
then
tput cup 15 0; echo "Name found!"
grep "$name" "$location" | cut -f 1,2,3,4,5 -d, | tr ',' ':' > temp.txt
y=`grep -F "$name" "temp.txt" | cut -f5 -d:`
case "$y" in
"A")
access="Administrator access" ;;
"B")
access="Business access" ;
"C")
access="Secretary access" ;;
*)
access="General access" ;;
esac
sed -e "s/A/$access/i" -e "s/B/$access/i" -e "s/S/$access/i" -e "s/G/$access/i" < temp.txt > test2.txt
cat test2.txt
fi
Last edited by ross_one; 11-13-2008 at 12:01 PM..
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COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)
NAME
column -- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by
default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
-c Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.
-t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
-x Fill columns before filling rows.
Column exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.
ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available.
EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME
"
; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)
HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
AVAILABILITY
The column command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
BSD
June 6, 1993 BSD