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# 1  
Old 11-28-2011
Help with Sed
I am trying to format the following text:
Code:
4873:Ken:Williams:Maple Dr.:(845)674-3849

to read like so
Code:
User ID:      4873
Last Name:  Williams
First Name:  Ken
Address:      Maple Dr.
Phone #:     (845)674-3849

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use code tags when posting data and code samples, thank you.


---------- Post updated at 02:46 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:38 PM ----------

Thanks for the code tag video. Sorry about that.
# 2  
Old 11-28-2011
Sort of this approach?
Code:
$ cat sample11.txt
4873:Ken:Williams:Maple Dr.:(845)674-3849

$ cat sample11.txt | awk -F":" '{print "User ID:\t"$1"\nLast Name:\t" $3"\nFirst Name:\t"$2}'
User ID:        4873
Last Name:      Williams
First Name:     Ken

# 3  
Old 11-29-2011
Piping from grep command
The code looks like it would filter a text file with a single line of entry.
But what Im trying to do is extract one line of code via its User ID which is the first column of data and format it to print out on its own line.

database.txt

Code:
4539:Michael:Sven:Oak Ln.:3409395888
6529:Bill:Williams:Maple Dr.:8453458970

Wanted output

Code:
User ID:     6529
Last Name: Williams
etc....

---------- Post updated at 03:09 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:21 AM ----------

Please I really need this help.
# 4  
Old 11-29-2011
Use grep and pipe the output to the awk statement mentioned by joeyg.

Code:
grep "^4539" database.txt | awk -F":" '{print "User ID:\t"$1"\nLast Name:\t" $3"\nFirst Name:\t"$2}'

Output:
Code:
User ID:        4539
Last Name:      Sven
First Name:     Michael

# 5  
Old 11-29-2011
You can do it in awk itself!
Code:
awk -F":" '/^6529/{print "User ID:\t"$1"\nLast Name:\t" $3"\nFirst Name:\t"$2}' input_file

--ahamed
# 6  
Old 11-29-2011
Thanks. I will try it on my VM.

---------- Post updated at 12:46 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:55 AM ----------

I should have stated this before. I want the user to enter a User Id he/she wants to display and the program then uses that input to look for the pattern and extract it.

The code above works but is there a way to omit /^6529/ with the established $USER_ID?
# 7  
Old 11-29-2011
Code:
awk -F":" '{if($1~USER_ID)print "User ID:\t"$1"\nLast Name:\t" $3"\nFirst Name:\t"$2}' USER_ID=$USER_ID input_file

--ahamed
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