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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to search for a word in a particular column of a file Post 302483892 by R0H0N on Wednesday 29th of December 2010 01:14:10 AM
Old 12-29-2010
Code:
cat inputFile | tr '***' '|' | while read line
do
    forthField=`echo "$line" | cut -d"|" -f4`
    fifthField=`echo "$line" | cut -d"|" -f5`

    if `echo "$forthField" | grep -i computer` ; then
        line="${line}|Y"
    else
        line="${line}|N"
    fi

    if `echo "$fifthField" | grep -i "Dell "` ; then
        line="${line}|Y"
    else
        line="${line}|N"
    fi
    
    echo "$line" | sed -n 's/\|/***/g' >> outputFile
done

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

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.

     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

	   (echo "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.

BSD
								   March 9, 2008							       BSD
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