So lets say I have a file that holds this information
Code:
Engineering Karen 58 John St. Peters
IT Roch 44 Main Ave. Gardener
IT John 89 Trist St Roch
Each of the columns are flush, so cutting would work.
Now basically if I enter in "Kare", the script should search the first name column, then spit out "Karen Peters" as the output.
The reason why I want the script to only do partial search in the first name category is in the case the 2nd and 3rd entry, the first and last name are identical respectively.
Thanks for the help!
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Actually I think I just figured it out...but I'm still stuck on isolating a GREP search within column parameters. The syntax is probably very easy, I just seem to not be able to find it.
Last edited by Scott; 10-16-2010 at 07:41 AM..
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
column
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.
DIAGNOSTICS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
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 " ;
printf "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.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD