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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers grep multiple matches Post 302492019 by rdcwayx on Saturday 29th of January 2011 06:32:00 AM
Old 01-29-2011
Code:
echo "Book name: "
read book
echo "Author name: "
read author
awk '/'"$book"'/&&/'"$author"'/' book.txt

 

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FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1) 					      calibre						   FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1)

NAME
fetch-ebook-metadata - part of calibre SYNOPSIS
fetch-ebook-metadata [options] DESCRIPTION
Fetch book metadata from online sources. You must specify at least one of title, author, publisher or ISBN. If you specify ISBN, the others are ignored. Whenever you pass arguments to fetch-ebook-metadata that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. OPTIONS
--version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit -t, --title Book title -a, --author Book author(s) -p, --publisher Book publisher -i, --isbn Book ISBN -m, --max-results Maximum number of results to fetch -k, --isbndb-key The access key for your ISBNDB.com account. Only needed if you want to search isbndb.com and you haven't customized the IsbnDB plug- in. -v, --verbose Be more verbose about errors SEE ALSO
The User Manual is available at http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net> fetch-ebook-metadata (calibre 0.6.53) July 2010 FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1)
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