Shell Programming and Scripting

Quote:

Originally Posted by lalelle

Hi
I have two lines of data formatted as displayed below

shop, price, remark, date
a,#N/A,order to -fd, 20091011


and would like it to be
shop:a
price:#N/A
remarkrder to -fd
date:20091011

Where do you "have" the data?

If they are in a file:

Code:

{
  read line1
  read line2
} < "$FILE"
IFS=,
set -f
set -- $line1 $line2

fields=$(( $# / 2 ))
n=1
while [ $n -le $fields ]
do
  eval "f1=\${$n} f2=\${$(( $n + $fields ))}"
  printf "%s:%s\n" "${f1# }" "${f2# }"
  n=$(( $n + 1 ))
done

Otherwise, put the first line in $line1 and the second in $line2 and use everything from IFS=, on.