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Question Help with Flat Files Please!! BASH (New User)
Hello All,

I am brand new to the UNIX world and so far and very intrigued and enjoy scripting. This is just a new language for me. I would really like assistance with the below request. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I want to create a flat file in Vi that has a header field and entries in each field. I then need to run a script that will ask me what I'm looking for and then return the data to a file.

Example:

First_Name,Last_Name,Phone#,City,State
John,Doe,5055551212,Albuquerque,NM
Jane,Doe,8085551212,Maui,HI
Bob,Doe,8085551212,Honolulu,HI

Now I would like the script to ask me "what are you looking for? First_Name, Last_Name, Phone#, City, State.

Then say for example I choose State.

It would then reply with choose a State.

I would enter HI

It would then output all entries from the State of HI to a file.

Is this possible or am I expecting to much from this script?

Thanks
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OSALANG(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						OSALANG(1)

NAME

     osalang -- information about installed OSA languages

SYNOPSIS

     osalang [-dlL]

DESCRIPTION

     osalang prints information about installed OSA languages.	With no options, it prints an unadorned list of language names to standard output.
     These names can be passed to the -l options of osacompile(1) and osascript(1).  The options are as follows:

     -d    Only print the default language.

     -l    List in long format.  For each language, osalang will print its component subtype, manufacturer, and capability flags.  There are eight
	   groups of optional routines that scripting components can support.  Each flag is either a letter, meaning the group is supported, or
	   '-', meaning it is not.  The letters map to the following groups:

		 c     compiling scripts.
		 g     getting source data.
		 x     coercing script values.
		 e     manipulating the event create and send functions.
		 r     recording scripts.
		 v     ``convenience'' APIs to execute scripts in one step.
		 d     manipulating dialects.
		 h     using scripts to handle Apple Events.

	   For descriptions of the groups and the APIs in each of them, see <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/IAC/IAC-361.html>.

     -L    Same as -l, but also prints the description of each component after its name.

SEE ALSO

     osacompile(1), osascript(1)

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