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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help with the syntax using awk+grep Post 88495 by Abhishek Ghose on Saturday 5th of November 2005 12:29:28 AM
Old 11-05-2005
This may not be efficient, but it works:
I am assuming that all the acct nos are placed in a file vertically. For ex. if you need data regarding accounts 123 and 456 they are present in a file in the following format:

acct_file:
123
456

Use sed to reformat the file like this:
sed 's/^/ACCOUNT NO /g' acct_file|sed 's/$/,/g' >temp

temp:
ACCOUNT NO 123,
ACCOUNT NO 456,


Use this as a pattern file for grep, and use paste on the information containing file (lets call it acct_info):

paste -s -d",,,,\n" acct_info|grep -f temp

(paste will horizontally paste every 5 rows of the file. grep uses temp as a pattern file)

Hope this helps.
 

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MC-TOOL(1)							     Utilities								MC-TOOL(1)

NAME

       mc-tool - manipulate Mission Control accounts from the command line

SYNOPSIS

       mc-tool list

       mc-tool add PROFILE DISPLAY-NAME [PARAMETER-SETTINGS...]

       mc-tool add MANAGER/PROTOCOL [PARAMETER-SETTINGS...]

       mc-tool update ACCOUNT [PARAMETER-SETTINGS...]

       mc-tool display ACCOUNT DISPLAY-NAME

       mc-tool nick ACCOUNT NICKNAME

       mc-tool icon ACCOUNT ICON

       mc-tool show ACCOUNT

       mc-tool get ACCOUNT PARAMETER [PARAMETER...]

       mc-tool auto-presence ACCOUNT STATUS [MESSAGE]

       mc-tool request ACCOUNT STATUS [MESSAGE]

       mc-tool auto-connect ACCOUNT on|off

       mc-tool remove ACCOUNT

DESCRIPTION

       mc-tool's usage depends on its first argument (the "command")

   SPECIFYING ACCOUNTS
       Where an account name is needed, it may be given as a full object path (e.g.  /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Account/gabble/jabber/example), or
       as the unique account-specific suffix (e.g.  gabble/jabber/example).

   SPECIFYING PARAMETER SETTINGS
       Many commands take arguments that represent Telepathy connection manager parameters (see the Telepathy Specification for details of these).
       Each argument has the following form:

       TYPE:NAME=VALUE

       where  TYPE  is either int, uint, bool, or string (other parameter types exist, but are currently unsupported by mc-tool), NAME is the name
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       as 0 or 1).

       The update command also accepts arguments of the form clear:NAME which delete the named parameter from the account configuration.

   LIST
       mc-tool list lists the available accounts.

   ADD
       mc-tool	add  adds  an  account.  The  connection  manager and protocol can either be given as the name of a Mission Control profile, (e.g.
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   DISPLAY
       mc-tool display ACCOUNT DISPLAY-NAME sets the DisplayName property of ACCOUNT to DISPLAY-NAME.

   NICK
       mc-tool nick ACCOUNT NICKNAME sets the Nickname property of ACCOUNT to NICKNAME.

   ICON
       mc-tool icon ACCOUNT ICON sets the Icon property of ACCOUNT to ICON.

   SHOW
       mc-tool show ACCOUNT shows information about ACCOUNT.

   GET
       mc-tool get ACCOUNT PARAMETER [PARAMETER...]  shows the values of the given parameters of ACCOUNT.

   ENABLE
       mc-tool enable ACCOUNT sets the Enabled property of ACCOUNT to True.

   DISABLE
       mc-tool disable ACCOUNT sets the Enabled property of ACCOUNT to False.

   AUTO-PRESENCE
       mc-tool auto-presence ACCOUNT STATUS [MESSAGE] sets the AutomaticPresence property of ACCOUNT to STATUS with optional message MESSAGE.

   REQUEST
       mc-tool request ACCOUNT STATUS [MESSAGE] sets the RequestedPresence property of ACCOUNT to STATUS with optional message	MESSAGE;  this	is
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   AUTO-CONNECT
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