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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script read specific value from files of an entire folder Post 302895044 by ahmenty on Friday 28th of March 2014 10:17:55 AM
Old 03-28-2014
Bash script read specific value from files of an entire folder
Hello,
I heva a problem creating a script that read specifc value from all the files of an entire folder

I have a number of email files into a directory and i need to extrect from each file 2 specific values.
After that i have to put them into a new file that looks like that:
Code:
To: value1

value2

This is what i want to do, but i don't know how to create the script:
Code:
ls -l | awk '{print $9 }' >tmpfile - i am putting the name of the files into a temp file
date=`date +"%T"` - used for the name of a file
var1=`cat tmpfile | grep "To: 0" | awk '{print $2 }' | cut -b -10 ` - the first specific value from file(phone number)
var2=cat file | grep Subject | awk '{print $2$3$4$5$6$7$8$9$10 }' - the second specific value from file(subject)
echo "To: 4"$var1""  > sms-$date - put the first value in a new file on the first row
echo ""$var2"" >>sms-$date put the second value in the same file on the second row

and do the same for every file in the directory

I tried using while and for functions but i couldn't finalize the script

Thank You
Last edited by Scott; 03-28-2014 at 11:25 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.

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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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