I need help really quick, this is due in an hour. Here is my new code, I just need to figure out how to get the user input to do the correct command, which is why I left the "if choice" blank...or should it be "if $choice" ?
read -p "How would you like the file to be sorted?
1) Alphabetically by name
2) By Land Area
3) By Population
Enter number choice here: " choice
read choice
if choice
then
awk '{ print $2, $3, $4 }' fifty_states.txt > states_alpha.txt
sort states_alpha.txt
fi
if choice
then
awk '{ print $2, $3, $4 }' fifty_states.txt > states_land.txt
sort -k +1 states_land.txt
fi
if choice
then
awk '{ print $2, $4, $3 }' fifty_states.txt > states_pop.txt
sort -k +1 states_pop.txt
fi
We are not going to do your homework for you.
I suggest again that you look at the man page for the test command so you can craft your if statements to look something like:
or
For e.g I have a file named "relation" which has three coloums i.e
JOHN MARY JACK
PETE ALISIA JONNY
TONY JACKIE VICTOR
If I do
grep -w 'JOHN' relation | awk '{print""$1" is husband of "$2" & father of "$3""}'
It gives out
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Kind of the process that I am after:
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Currently using:
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-----------------------------------
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Scenario 1
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Example:
I have files in below format
file 1:
zxc,133,joe@example.com
cst,222,xyz@example1.com
File 2 Contains:
hxd
hcd
jws
zxc
cst
File 1 has 50000 lines and file 2 has around 30000 lines :
Expected Output has to be :
hxd
hcd
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