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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search, and add if present Post 302887492 by loba on Saturday 8th of February 2014 06:37:00 AM
Old 02-08-2014
Dear tukuyomi,

yes, position $7 can have a list of possible values not just aa1. The same is true for $8 and $9. I was thinking I could first work on position $7. Save the file and continue with the next one. Your suggestion works the problem is I would have to create a text file for all possible values, safe it and run it. I was wondering if you know a better way? I tired a for loop (and an array) to get all the items for e.g. $7 but it did not work.

---------- Post updated at 12:37 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:31 PM ----------

Dear Don Cragun,

You are right. I was thinking of doing one list after the other. Like I tried to describe in my last post.

Code:
for ITEMS in 'cat item_at_position_7.list'
do
   ???
done < in.txt > out7.txt

I know the for loop does not work Smilie
 

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