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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk question. Post 302668431 by nua7 on Monday 9th of July 2012 08:59:06 AM
Old 07-09-2012
For some reason, the username field comes in as 1st and 3rd field (duplicated).

Here's the sample output file.If you notice entry for at9601, the username field is empty since at9601 entry is found in file 2 , but not in file 1.

Code:
USERID    USERNAME    SCREEN    OVERALL ACCESS LEVEL
at3624    Annette Tuccelli    INCLM    1
at3624    Annette Tuccelli    OPCLM    1
at3624    Annette Tuccelli    PROCD    1
at3624    Annette Tuccelli    PROVC    1
at3624    Annette Tuccelli    SOVER    1
at3624    Annette Tuccelli    USERF    1
at3624    Annette Tuccelli    VENDR    1
at9601                                AUTHQ    1
at9601                               COLOR    0
at9601                               INCLM    1
at9601                               MEMB    2
at9601                               OPCLM    1
at9601                               PROCD    1
at9601                               PROCP    1
at9601                               PROVC    1
at9601                               SOVER    1
at9601                               USERF    1
at9601                              VENDR    1
atp01    Automated Process    CREDL    1
atp01    Automated Process    FDATA    0
atp01    Automated Process    PROVA    1
atp01    Automated Process    PROVC    2

 

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gpe-question

GPE-QUESTION(1) 						   gpe-question 						   GPE-QUESTION(1)

NAME

       gpe-question - GPE interface for asking questions from shell scripts.

SYNOPSIS

       gpe-question [---icon] name {--question "Question text"} {--buttons icon1:text1} [icon2:text2 ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       gpe-question provides dialogues to raise a question within the GPE Palmtop Environment with cancel and ok buttons.

OPTIONS

       --question STRING
	  The question to ask the user via the dialogue.

       --buttons type:label
	  The type and label of the button(s) to be shown. Repeat for additional buttons.

EXAMPLES

       gpe-question "test" --question "Do you want to check first?"  --buttons YES:yes NO:no

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHOR

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	  Author.

COPYRIGHT

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Debian 1							 January 16, 2007						   GPE-QUESTION(1)
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