UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

You've told us all what it doesn't do.

What, exactly, does it do? Specifically, I mean. What gets repeated? When does it start doing so? What output does it show? That will probably tell us more than what doesn't happen.

Also, please post the improved code you tried, since for all we know there were still syntax errors in it and the like.

Okay so basically what this script is doing is that it will take the addresses and ports from the address.txt file then it will get the numbers based on the address found and from there it should just echo out about the number of times equal to the number of address just exactly what the address is, the port number, and the number.

and example would be this:

www.google.com,80,19,yes

this is the improved code:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

log="/var/tmp/log.txt"
result="/var/tmp/results.txt"
while IFS=: read address port; do
        : ${port:=443}
        address=$address
        port=$port
        
        cd $f_location
        
        number=`grep "$address" thing.txt -A 1 | grep "addresses=" | cut -d'"' -f2`

        echo "$address,$port,$number,$answer" | tee -a $log >> $result

done < address.txt

Provide all the inputs to the script, the output that it is generating, and the output that is desired. What's in thing.txt? Where are $f_location and $answer coming from? What are their values?

If you're only showing us a portion of the script and passing it off as the entire thing, you're doing everyone (including yourself) a disservice by wasting our time (yours included).

Regards,
Alister