UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

ID      STARTDATE       ENDDATE
101     20090520        20090521
102     20090521        20090522
103     20090522        20090523
104     20090523        20090524
105     20090524        20090525
106     20090525        20090526
107     20090526        20090527
108     20090527        20090528

#! /bin/ksh
i="1"
while read line
do
x=`awk -v num="$i" '{if(NR==num) print($2);}' mvm.txt`
y=`awk -v num="$i" '{if(NR==num) print($3);}' mvm.txt`
case $x in +([0-9])*(.)*([0-9]) )
        touch mvm_file_"$x"_"$y".txt
        ;;
        * )
        ;;
esac
i=`expr $i + 1`
done < mvm.txt

f=open("file")
firstline = f.readline()
for line in f:
    oline=line
    line= line.strip().split()
    open("data_"+line[1]+"_"+line[2],"a").write(oline)

# ./test.py
# ls -1 data_*
data_20090520_20090521
data_20090521_20090522
data_20090522_20090523
data_20090523_20090524
data_20090524_20090525
data_20090525_20090526
data_20090526_20090527
data_20090527_20090528