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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to grep and then to compare Post 302316419 by ravi18s on Friday 15th of May 2009 03:00:39 AM
Old 05-15-2009
Data how to grep and then to compare
Hello to all,
i am new to scripting. I had to ques...1) If I had a variable $a which contains value i.e abc= jack
I want to grep it first and then put into the variable lets say $b.
Ques 2) If there is a file name.txt in which there are 15-20 names
-----name.txt------
jack|male|london
prink|male|hague
john|male|france
nincey|female|calif
-------------------
now I want to compare the value of $b with each name in name.txt
Thank you....
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

lpbb

LPBB(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   LPBB(4)

NAME

     lpbb -- parallel port I2C bit-banging interface

SYNOPSIS

     device iicbus
     device iicbb

     device lpbb
     device iic

DESCRIPTION

     The lpbb driver supports the Philips official I2C parallel bit-banging interface.

					      LS05 pin 14 (Vcc) o      -------
								|      |     |
		 +--+--+---------------------+--+--+------------+------+-o 1 |
		 |  |  |		     |	|  |	       ===.1uF | +5V |
       -------- [R][R][R] 3x10K       3x10K [R][R][R]	LS05	|      |     |
       |      |  |  |  |		     |	|  |	pin 7 o-+------+-o 2 |
       | 12 o-+--+  |  |   3| 4	     |	|  |	(Gnd)	       | GND |
       | 17 o-+-----|--|----| >o-------------+--|--|--------------+    |     |
       |      |     |  |    |/	      8 /|9	|  |	 10 /|11  +----+-o 3 |
       | 15 o-+-----+--|--------------o< |------+--|------o< |----+    | SCL |
       |      |        |   1| 2	|	   |	    |	       |     |
       |  9 o-+--------|----| >o-------------------+--------------+----+-o 4 |
       |      |        |    |/				  6 /|5   |    | SDA |
       | 11 o-+--------+----------------------------------o< |----+    -------
       | 10 o-+-+					    |		4-pin
       | 13 o-+-+--oGND 					     Connector
       | 25 o-+-+      ------------------ Part List --------------------------
       --------        | 1 - .1 uF capacitor   | 6 - 10K 5% resistors	     |
       25-pin male D   | 1 - 4-pin connector   | 1 - 25-pin male D connector |
       connector to PC | 1 - 74LS05 open collector hex inverter 	     |
       printer port    -------------------------------------------------------

SEE ALSO

     iicbb(4), iicbus(4), ppbus(4)

HISTORY

     The lpbb manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.

AUTHORS

     This manual page was written by Nicolas Souchu.

BSD
								 October 25, 1998							       BSD
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