Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

Can anyone please give me inputs to write a ksh script for the following :-

1. Load the configuration files "./app_config.txt" and "./mail_config.txt".
2. For each category there will be one input file in dir "data". Start
processing this input file based on the column 5th element (column) in
each record of the file, that record will be appended to corresponding
output file in "output" directory. e.g. If in the first row, 5th element
is "CP-NYM-01", the complete row would be entered/appended in the file
"output/CP-NYM-01.txt". Similarly all records containing "CP-NYM-01" in
the fifth Colum, from all input files, would be appended in a single "CP-
NYM-01.txt" file.
3. After all input files are processed, zip all the output files in "output"
directory.
4. Now send the files to respective email addresses mentioned in the config
file "./mail_config.txt".
5. If file category is not found in the file, send the remaining files to
common address "xyz@gmail.com".
6. Clean up the output directory after processing is complete.


Thanks a lot in advance,
Marconi.

Hi,

At least please suggest me some other Forums where I can get replies.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Best Regards,
Marconi

First you should break it into more simple questions.

How do I display the 5th element of a column? (and what is the delimiter for the columns btw!?)
How do I compare two strings?
How do I loop through each element in a list?
How do I send email?
etc.

You can find things like this all over google and if there is something more specific that you cant find anywhere you can ask here, because maybe people are too busy to make a complete script for you(at least I'm guessing they are ).

Cheers