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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find the position of a pattern on a line from a csv file Post 302501768 by Corona688 on Friday 4th of March 2011 05:09:10 PM
Old 03-04-2011
There we go. Thanks. Smilie

I'm assuming you meant "yyyy;bbbb;cccc;ddddd;eeee" because its position wouldn't be 3 otherwise...

Code:
#!/bin/bash
STR="cccc"
LINE=1
while IFS=";" read -a ARR
do
        for ((N=0; N<"${#ARR[@]}"; N++))
        do
                [[ "$STR" == "${ARR[$N]}" ]] && echo "line $LINE: $((N+1))"
        done
        ((LINE++))
done < filename.csv

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME
shells - shell database SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser- shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root. A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored. The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list. Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)). FILES
/etc/shells lists shells on system SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4) SunOS 5.10 4 Jun 2001 shells(4)
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