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Hello,
I was wondering if there was a way to write a script to do the following:


turn a file that contains:

1234 Kevin Smith 12:09 456235
1234 John ...

I had picked up on the "printf" typo you made (Im not that new) but to no avail. But I found a different way to do it.
Thanks Anyway,

I now know how to use awk (after reading up on the man page)

Thanks, although that didnt seem to work
I figured it out.

Thanks Anyway !

I know this seems like a stupid question.
I am trying to sort an address book. Some peole have first, middle and last names, some only have first and last names.

Eg:
Bob Hope
John Bon Jovi
etc...

Don't worry. I found a solution.

NAME="Bob Hope"
spacecount=0
for((i=0; i<${#NAME};i++))
if test ${NAME:$i:1} = " "
then
let 'spacecount=spacesount+1'
...

Hello,

I am writing a shell script and I need to find a way to
count the number of whitespaces in a string.

Eg:
NAME="Bob Hope"
I am looking for a way to count the number of whitespaces in...

#!/usr/bin/bash
cat /etc/passwd | while read A
do
USER=`echo “$A” | cut -f 1 -d “:”`
echo “Found $USER”
done


This shell script should make USER = the first field of...