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# 1  
Old 11-11-2011
Enter an input and reference another line in ksh script
Hi

I have a file like so:

Code:
Frank Peter Tony Robert Mike 1 2 3 4 5 5 4 2 3 1 4 3 1 5 2
My out should look like this:

Peter
Tony
Mike

and so on....

I have the first part done to ask the user to enter the number
Code:
echo -n 'Enter number:' ; read num
if [[ $num = "" ]];then
echo " Missing field "
exit 1
else

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 11-12-2011
Can you explain you question? It is not clear to me what you want
# 3  
Old 11-12-2011
My file is messed up in the previous thread sorry. The file looks like

Code:
Peter   Tony    Frank   Mike     Robert
1          2         3           4           5
5          4         1           2           3
4          3         2           5           1

So if the user inputs a 2 the following names show up

Tony
Frank
Mike

and so on for the other numbers...
# 4  
Old 11-12-2011
I still dont get it, how is 2 related to your names?
# 5  
Old 11-12-2011
Well I'm sure there is an awk statement that can parse this file and if it finds 2 (example) it looks at the first row and reports Tony...then moves over see2 another 2 and looks at the top of the row and finds Frank....and so on....I'm not an advanced awk person or perl, I don't know all the switches that can do this...Maybe perl can also do it..
# 6  
Old 11-12-2011
Well this will get you close
The order of the output isn't the same...

Code:
/home/brad/unix.com/requests/2 >cat x
#! /bin/bash

awk -v t=$1 ' 
	$0 ~ /[A-Za-z]/ { split($0, names); next;}
	{ 
		split($0, numbers);
		for(i in numbers)
			if ( $(i) == t)
				print names[i];
} ' input.txt

Output: -

Code:
/home/brad/unix.com/requests/2 >./x 2
Tony
Mike
Frank
/home/brad/unix.com/requests/2 >./x 5
Robert
Peter
Mike

Input file: -

Quote:
/home/brad/unix.com/requests/2 >cat input.txt
Peter Tony Frank Mike Robert
1 2 3 4 5
5 4 1 2 3
4 3 2 5 1
# 7  
Old 11-14-2011
Hi

Thanks steadyonabix I appreciate your help however I noticed that if my numbers are 6 digit long this does not work. I can't seem to figure it out...Example 335191or 336455 You can this as an example

Code:
Tony                    Frank                   Peter                   Steve                   John              Tom
330459                330384                335191               337060               336455         335177   
336286                                            330068               331129               333023         334812
331439                                            336140               335191               334912
                                                                                                              330119
                                                                                                              332027
                                                                                                              336341
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