UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can anyone give me a hand with some questions by e-mailing me directly, so I can relay the questions inorder. I really would appreciate anyone that can help.

Thank You in advance, I am online and will reply instantly.

Charley

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Emails outside of the forum defeat the purpose of UNIX.com. Knowledge discussed outside of the forum doesn't allow everyone to benefit and fails to build the knowledge base. Your questions is not appropriate, please post your question instead of asking for one-on-one help.

Keith

I planned on posting it after I was through, hard to describe something when you can not walk someone through it.

Charley

I have a good awk book on my site that may be of some help.
Awk is an awesome and an extermely powerful language.

http://www.duffin.org/books/unix/sedawk/index.htm

Keith
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Ok,

The site gave me some light to see how I can make this work.

Just one thing can you give me an example of how I can run a program that
asked the user for input to sort the items?

Charley

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nawk is more robust than awk and has some functions like readline etc.
You could also use shell for user interaction and pass the variable into
the awk script - just a crude example:

Code:

echo "Phonelist"
echo "------------------"
echo "1) Firstname"
echo "2) Lastname"
echo "etc...\n"
echo "How would you like to sort the list? \c"
read SORTVAL
echo $SORTVAL

awk '
        BEGIN { print $sval
        }
{
        if (sval == 1) print "Will sort by Firstname"
        if (sval == 2) print "Will sort by Lastname"

}' sval=$SORTVAL phonebook

added code tags for readability --oombera

Sounds like this may be a more appropriate question for your teacher...I'm sure if you use the Search function of this website you'll come up with something. If it's not homework, can you be more specfic as to what your needs are?

I am working to learn basic unix command such as Roster Phonelist, and simple problems since that is the system I have to use right now while I am working overseas. These are sample examples that I can use for better understanding of the syntax.

I am not in a class.