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Old 04-30-2007
lookup script
hello

I am a student taking an intro to UNIX class.

I have an assignment I am having trouble completing.

The assignment is as follows.

i have a file called .addr_book that has various names and phone numbers in it.

I need to write a script called lookup that will run like this

I enter lookup plus a name or number and the script will give me every entry in the address book that matches that name or number.

I know grep will search within a file.

I know I can pipe output through sort.

I don't know how to set up so that the user can type lookup and a string and have the program search for that string

I also don't know how to take the input of the user and plug it into a grep command.

I appreciate your help
thanks
Jim
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Old 04-30-2007
lookup :

Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh
grep $1 /.../.addr_book | sort

run

# /path/to/lookup <stringtosearch>
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Old 04-30-2007
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