CSV file in unix


 
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Old 12-12-2011
CSV file in unix

Hi I have a problem and was wondering if anyone could help?

Anyone can input their full name, email, birth date, gender how can I put this into a comma seperate value file?

And then be able to sort it by their gender?

Any help is appreicated I'm novice!
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Old 12-12-2011
Note: this sounds like homework to me - for an intro class. We have a forum for that.
No teacher will believe you wrote the code below.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
declare -a prompt=('Enter full name:' 'email:', 'birth date:', 'gender:')
rec=""
while true 
do
  for i in 0 1 2 3
  do
     echo "${prompt[i]} \c"; read rec[i]
  done
  echo "${rec[0]},${rec[0]},${rec[0]},${rec[0]}" >> myfile.csv
  echo "Enter more Y/N \c"; read ok
  [ $ok = 'Y' ]  && continue
  break
done
sort -t',' -k 4 -o myfile.csv myfile.csv

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