Shell Programming and Scripting

That will never print out the name associated with each record.

Also, splitting on "=" assumes that there will not be any equals signs in the value. It's probably a safe assumption but not necessarly a given (I have had to deal with data which treated the first occurrence of a character specially and any subsequent appearances literally). If there did happen to be another "=" the value of $2 would be truncated relative to the correct value.

Regards,
Alister

Sorry fo rthe mistake, my first idea what something else, using eval :

Code:

for F in */latest.txt
do
    for ((i=0; i<5; i++))
    do
        read L
        eval $L
    done < $F
    echo "$Age,$Gender,$Name,$Street,$Occupation" >> outputfile
done

Thanks to point that, just recognize the outputs are re-organized. The name part still need be exported to third part.

Here is the ugly code

Code:

awk -F "=" '{printf "%s,", $2} '  file* |sed s'/,,/\n/g' |awk -F "," '{print $2,$3,$1,$4,$5}' OFS=","