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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting bash adding multiple names Post 302465926 by Learnerabc on Monday 25th of October 2010 01:22:17 AM
Old 10-25-2010
Thanks for reply..but now I am trying to do something else

now lets say i have

sam:john:son:$x

where $x is a number

so if i enter sam john son again the x become 2 and so on

now what i want is take $x and make it 2 if same name enter

if i enter same name 3rd time it becomes 3 and so on
 

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