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# 1  
Old 12-19-2007
script help

i am new to scripts... i am trying to read an Ascii or .txt file which has data like
company1 y
company2 y
company3 n

i have to create 2 list of company's, one for 'y' and other for 'n'.
can anybody help?
# 2  
Old 12-19-2007
Code:
while read COMPANY VOTE
do
     case "$VOTE" in
     y )
           echo "$COMPANY" >>company.ayes
           ;;
      n )
           echo "$COMPANY" >>company.nayes
           ;;
      * )
           echo "$COMPANY" >>company.abstain
           ;;
     esac
done <company.lst

# 3  
Old 12-19-2007
i amn ot quite what is the naming convention mean in ur script example ..
# 4  
Old 12-19-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by iamcool
i amn ot quite what is the naming convention mean in ur script example ..
Can you put that in English please?
# 5  
Old 12-19-2007
Smilie my bad
i mean to say in the sample code that u sent is -
company - name of the asci file
yesno - variable ?
# 6  
Old 12-19-2007
"company.lst" is the name of the ascii file.

"company.ayes" contains the yes votes.
"company.nayes" contains the no votes.
"company.abstain" contains any that were missed.
# 7  
Old 12-20-2007
is there a way that we can loop through 2 list at the same time like-
for name in $list1 and $list2
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