Shell Programming and Scripting

Thanks era for pointing that out ..its indead a lesson ..
Am still not getting a solution though am working on it

But Franklin's solution will directly put the script to give the output which is not want i need.

1.txt > temp.sh > 2.sh
when 2.sh runs i shud get the output not when temp.sh runs.
I need the solution to be written in temp.sh so that it access 1.txt, replace certain lines and writes to 2.sh. Then am suppose to run 2.sh to get the formatted printing.

franklin's solution directly jumps to the output. i dont get a 2.sh !!!

Hope I made it clear.

Code:

echo 'BEGIN {' >temp.awk
 awk '$1 ~ "column"{gsub(",|\"","");
  printf("printf (\"%%*s\\n\", \"" $2 "\", \"" $3 "\");\n") }' 1.txt >>temp.awk
echo '}' >>temp.awk

This creates an awk script, not a shell script. I'm sure you can figure out how to adapt it if you absolutely want a shell script.

Am still facing problems with this .
Am thinking of another logic.

Keeping the same file format ( I have writeen in bold -- scroll up), can I search for teh patterns "print" and "column" using a single grep (or any other search command ) from teh file 1.txt and write it to "temp.txt"

Thanks

Code:

egrep '(print|column)' 1.txt >temp.txt

Hi,

after using the above command and a bit of tuning i made the file format as below:

print
# Print first some lines #
column 1, "cat",
column 9, rat,
column 56, goat

# this is a comment statement #
print column 46, naming function
print heaven
print hell
print
column 23, market"&&&",
column 30, fill
######
print
column 55, descrition,

Can u help mw to get some variables as below:
var1="print column 1, "cat", column 9, rat, column 56, goat"
var2="print column 46, naming function"
var3="print heaven"
-----
var5="print column 23, market"&&&",column 30, fill"

dont want the comment statements. And i can remove them ..In short,i need to select from the first" print " to the next print(exclude) and store that in a variable.

I can do the storing but cutting is not successful. I tried using awk but that too didnot give the desired o/p

Thanks