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i am new to shell scripting and stuck at one place in my program.

i am reading data from one structured file and extracting some data from particular lines and then writing into the output file. In that reading input file line by line from while loop.

Code:

while read line 
 do
   rectype=line | cut c-1-2
   case rectype in
         10)
             header
          ;;
         20)
             continue
         ;;
         30)
           X=line | cut c-1-6
            data1 X

         ;;
         31)
            data2
          ;;
         32)
            data3
          ;;
         88)
            continue
         ;;
         89)
            trailer
         ;;
         *)
            echo "error in the file"
            exit 1 #exit script with error
         ;;
      esac
 done < input.txt

inside case i am calling different functions and writing into the output file, while i am extracting values with the help of cut it will go to the next line and loop continue there until end of file but i want to extract text at particular line and again go to the next line loop and then check the case.
thanks in advance.

I believe that if you post a sample of your input data and an example of the desired output, you'll get a quicker (and most probably better) answer.

thanks for the reply

input file like:

Code:

10014526728998900
20097627893409458908890890485
30977874018348558583834089497876974994
319739759085094890589088498979787020923908
322209489458797847594758058498949479985985984
88038542759792P499845
897394098598908989689089

the file data is not fix but first 2 letter will same and 30, 31 and 32 will come many times inside 20 and 88.

and i want to extract 485585 (position 13 to 19 data ) from 30 and some more fields from 30, 31 and 32 and then write into the output file.

It would be easier if you provide the desired output, based on the sample output above, as well.

extract (position 13 to 19 data ) from 30, 31 and 32

Code:

awk '/^3[0-9]/{print substr($0,13,6)}' infile

485585
094890
797847

Code:

 $ ruby -ne 'puts $_[12,6] if /^3[0-2]/ ' file

sample outout will be

0001256457558
001644855855960790
002494850496568568

starting 000,001 and 002 is fixed and rest data is variable and 485585 coming from the input file.

my whole code is below
#!/bin/sh
# write the output file header
function header()
{
rec_typ=000
file_var=00001
fieldid_1=BP
fieldid_2=`date +%y%m%d`
fieldid_3=XXXXXX
flag=P
echo $rec_typ $file_var $fieldid_1$fieldid_2$fieldid_3 $flag > output.txt
}
# append the BPF file with data record and extract the KID information
function transaction1()
{
rec_typ=001
bin_num=$1
account_num=$2
ref_num=
debit_rej_cde=
payment_cde=XXX
adjust_cde=
cre_deb_cde=
pay_curr_cde=
sett_ref_num=
o_sett_ref_num=
o_tran_num=
pay_amount=
card_number=
echo $rec_typ $bin_num $account_num $ref_num $debit_rej_cde $payment_cde $adjust_cde $cre_deb_cde $pay_curr_cde $sett_ref_num $o_sett_ref_num $o_tran_num $pay
_des $pay_amount $card_number >> BPF
}
#append the BPF file with this record
function transaction2()
{
echo="ABC"
}
#append the BPF file with transaction3 record
function transaction3()
{
pay_des=
}
#append the BPF file with trailer record
function trailer ()
{
rec_typ=002
deb_amount=
deb_count=
cre_amount=
cre_count=
}
#if [ -f "OCR.txt"]; then
END=no
while [ $END=no ]
do
exec a1
echo $a1
rectype=`line | cut -c1-2`;
echo "$rectype"
case "$rectype" in
10)
header
echo "inside header"
continue
;;
20)
echo "inside batch header"
continue
;;
30)
BIN=`line | cut -c13-18`;
ACCOUNT=`line | cut -c19-30`;
echo "$ACCOUNT"
transaction1 "$BIN" "$ACCOUNT"
echo "inside transaction1"
continue
;;
31)
transaction2
echo "inside transaction2"
continue
;;
32)
transaction3
echo "inside transaction3"
continue
;;
88)
echo "inside batch trailer"
continue
;;
89)
trailer
echo "inside trailer"
END=yes
exit 0
;;
*)
echo "$rectype"
echo "reeta error in the file"
exit 1 #exit script with error
;;
esac
done < "input.txt"
#read of file
#exit script OK
# fi

may be now you will get better idea what i am trying to do.
code is working file only thing BIN=`line | cut -c13-18`; extracting data from the next line of the input file i want to extarct data from current line of the input file.

thanks in advance.