On 6/21/07, Jeffrey McCright jmccright@hotmail.com wrote:
All,
I have a friend who needs to run a shell script to process data in a space or comma delimited file. I think SED or AWK may be needed here, but I don't program so I need help. The ASCII File structure is similar to the following:
Lastname Firstname internalphonenumber externalphonenumber phoneextention MACaddress ... Lastname Firstname internalphonenumber externalphonenumber phoneextention MACaddress ... Lastname Firstname internalphonenumber externalphonenumber phoneextention MACaddress ... Lastname Firstname internalphonenumber externalphonenumber phoneextention MACaddress ...
The fields are variable length.
My friend needs to be able to plug in commands in this script file so that she can have something like:
{command} Lastname {command} Firstname {command} internalphonenumber {command} externalphonenumber ...
etc...
The file contains around 1400 records or more. Each record needs to be processed as above.
Does this make sense? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jeffrey A. McCright, A+ 816-210-3107 jmccright@hotmail.com
If your friend can give a sample dataset, I can whip up a Python script ASAP.