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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need Help with Awd/sort commands Post 44458 by flarebel on Saturday 6th of December 2003 04:44:21 PM
Old 12-06-2003
I have a good awk book on my site that may be of some help.
Awk is an awesome and an extermely powerful language.

http://www.duffin.org/books/unix/sedawk/index.htm

Keith
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Ok,

The site gave me some light to see how I can make this work.

Just one thing can you give me an example of how I can run a program that
asked the user for input to sort the items?

Charley

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nawk is more robust than awk and has some functions like readline etc.
You could also use shell for user interaction and pass the variable into
the awk script - just a crude example:
Code:
echo "Phonelist"
echo "------------------"
echo "1) Firstname"
echo "2) Lastname"
echo "etc...\n"
echo "How would you like to sort the list? \c"
read SORTVAL
echo $SORTVAL

awk '
        BEGIN { print $sval
        }
{
        if (sval == 1) print "Will sort by Firstname"
        if (sval == 2) print "Will sort by Lastname"

}' sval=$SORTVAL phonebook

added code tags for readability --oombera
Last edited by oombera; 02-19-2004 at 12:25 PM..
 

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