i have two problems with my phone book script the first i want to only allow a valid name if it has letters and spaces not a number in the name. so "joe smith" is ok "joe smith1" is not ok.
Code:
name="Joe Smith"
case $name in
*[!a-zA-Z ]*) echo invalid name ;;
*) echo OK ;;
esac
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the second problem is how can i cut a name out of a txt file i have this as my test txt file
joe blogs 12345678
smith peter 43667843
joe smith 54329875
david cooper 78564429
peter cooper 89975563
now how do i search the txt file and only remove the one line say joe smith and not the other smith.
Code:
name='joe smith'
grep -v "$name" FILENAME
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im entering the info into the script with positional paramiters so to run my script i use ./book.sh "joe smith"
hope someone can help me here im loving learning linux scripting thankyou for any help you can give me.
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
qmail-users
qmail-users(5) File Formats Manual qmail-users(5)NAME
qmail-users - assign mail addresses to users
OVERVIEW
The file /var/lib/qmail/users/assign assigns addresses to users. For example,
=joe.shmoe:joe:503:78:/home/joe:::
says that mail for joe.shmoe should be delivered to user joe, with uid 503 and gid 78, as specified by /home/joe/.qmail.
Assignments fed to qmail-newu will be used by qmail-lspawn to control qmail-local's deliveries. See qmail-newu(8). A change to
/var/lib/qmail/users/assign will have no effect until qmail-newu is run.
STRUCTURE
/var/lib/qmail/users/assign is a series of assignments, one per line. It ends with a line containing a single dot. Lines must not contain
NUL.
SIMPLE ASSIGNMENTS
A simple assignment is a line of the form
=local:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:ext:
Here local is an address; user, uid, and gid are the account name, uid, and gid of the user in charge of local; and messages to local will
be controlled by homedir/.qmaildashext.
If there are several assignments for the same local address, qmail-lspawn will use the first one.
local is interpreted without regard to case.
WILDCARD ASSIGNMENTS
A wildcard assignment is a line of the form
+loc:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:pre:
This assignment applies to any address beginning with loc, including loc itself. It means the same as
=locext:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:preext:
for every string ext.
A more specific wildcard assignment overrides a less specific assignment, and a simple assignment overrides any wildcard assignment. For
example:
+:alias:7790:2108:/var/lib/qmail/alias:-::
+joe-:joe:507:100:/home/joe:-::
=joe:joe:507:100:/home/joe:::
The address joe is handled by the third line; the address joe-direct is handled by the second line; the address bill is handled by the
first line.
SEE ALSO qmail-pw2u(8), qmail-newu(8), qmail-lspawn(8)qmail-users(5)
08-28-2009
thankyou for any help you can give me.