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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Shell Script: Sorting by column using grep/awk Post 302781427 by Don Cragun on Saturday 16th of March 2013 01:29:42 PM
Old 03-16-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by tburns517
Do you see an issue with this? I got it to work without errors, but I am not getting an output at all, as in, the file is not being created.

Code:
if [ "$choice" = "1" ]
then
awk -F"\t" '{ print $2, $3, $4 }' fifty_states.txt | sort > states_alpha.txt
fi

Note that I added code tags...

I don't see why states_alpha.txt would not be created by this command (assuming that you just entered 1 and a carriage-return after the prompt printed by echo). But I don't see why you are discarding the state's name (the 1st field in your input file) from the data you are feeding into sort.

Try adding:
Code:
set -xv

as a new line before the echo in your script so you can see how your shell is expanding the variables it is processing.
 

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