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Old 09-13-2010
sort the last names
hi all

i have a datafile consists of fields seperated by colons. the fields are as follows : a) First and last name
b) Phone number
c) Address
d) Birth date
e) Salary

now i want to write a script naming lookup.sh using vi editor which consists of following operations:

a) sort the data files by last names
b) show the user the content of the datafile
c) Display the user the number of entries
in the file

...
# 2  
Old 09-13-2010
Post your sample input file and expected output.
# 3  
Old 09-13-2010
i have a input file naming lookup.txt and the data is :

Code:
sonu pal:9897933005:pimpri:19/05/1988:15000
vijay aggarwal:9897933006:akurdi:19/05/1987:20000
ajay singh:9897933007:dapodi:19/05/1986:25000
mahesh rana:9006752312:chinchwad:21/09/1976:50000


and the expected o/p must be like this :


Code:
vijay aggarwal:9897933006:akurdi:19/05/1987:20000
sonu pal:9897933005:pimpri:19/05/1988:15000
mahesh rana:9006752312:chinchwad:21/09/1976:50000
ajay singh:9897933007:dapodi:19/05/1986:25000


the number of entries in a line = 5
total number of entries in a file = 20
Last edited by pludi; 09-13-2010 at 04:51 AM..
# 4  
Old 09-13-2010
Hi, Try this,

Code:
sort -k2 inputfile ; awk -F":" 'END{print "the number of entries in a line =" NF; print "total number of entries in a file = " NF*NR}' inputfile

# 5  
Old 09-13-2010
hi pravin27,

It is showing the output like this ...but the output of last two lines are zero which is incorrect...


vijay aggarwal:9897933006:akurdi:19/05/1987:20000
sonu pal:9897933005:pimpri:19/05/1988:15000
mahesh rana:9006752312:chinchwad:21/09/1976:50000
ajay singh:9897933007:dapodi:19/05/1986:25000
the number of entries in a line =0
total number of lines =0
Last edited by sonu_pal; 09-13-2010 at 05:26 AM..
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