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the one Frans was referring to :)

that code seems to terminate after I enter in the string that I want to search

sorry, I should've clarified with an example

so lets say theres a few names in a list

whether the user enters it eter, Pete, ter

it should output Peter as a match. A partial or full match...

that particular part is supposed to check if the user input equals or partially equals $Name1

ahh okay I understand now!

I ran the script and got this
./test: line 5: conditional binary operator expected
./test: line 5: syntax error near `=~"Name1"'
./test: line 5: ` [[ "$S"...

I did paste that in a dummy script and renamed it accordingly but it didnt output anything.

The script did run to the user input stage and then concluded. I am trying to understand your code as...

I would want to search a partial name within columns 12-26


So what Ive decide to do is make a while loop, that will go line by line in the database file, and then spits out the first(col 12-26)...

So lets say I have a file that holds this information

Engineering Karen 58 John St. Peters
IT Roch 44 Main Ave. Gardener
IT John 89 Trist St ...

Hi there!

New user to UNIX scripting. Had a question I was stuck on.

I've been trying to make a script(for a larger project) that would search a file(lets say playerlist).

the file is...