Re: [PLUG] shell scripting help

That 'done' at the end looks copy-pasted from a do/done block.

Also, you don't use the dollar sign with "read", so that line should say "read i;".

Here's a simpler version:

#!/bin/bash

echo "What is the filename you want to grep?";
read i;

OUTPUT=$(egrep '\b[A-Z]+| [0-9:]+ \b' "$i" |egrep -v 'anaged|No|Na|Ser|Ty|Contact' |sort -u);

echo "${OUTPUT}";

Best regards,

//CMFM

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 12:04 PM Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to write a shell script to automate the formatting of a text file in a certain way that is useful to me. the complicated egrep while not ideal does the job when run alone, where $i is the name of the file I want to grep, but when I try put it together in an easy to run script it doesn't do anything. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you.

#!/bin/bash
echo "What is the filename you want to grep?";
read $i;
OUTPUT="$(egrep '\b[A-Z]+| [0-9:]+ \b' $i | grep -v anaged | grep -v No| sort -u | grep -v Na | grep -v Ser | grep -v Ty | grep -v Contact)";
echo "${OUTPUT}";
done

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Michael Lazin

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