awk/perl/bash script?

Question

Hi guys

I am very new to scripting and programming, but i need a simple script that will execute a report (awk based) by reading in a file

I basically need to do the following using an already made script that is called shownamescript

shownamescript "name" |grep "text_to_match"

I need the "name" to be read from a file.I have 500 names to match in order to grep out some information from the name, and i don't want to sit and run the script 500 times

can anyone help with a script that will run this shownamescript on each name in the file and output the "text_to_match" information?

Thankyou so much

Answer 1

Assuming the file containing your list of names has each name on its own line. You should be able to do it using another script that loops through each line. Perhaps something like:



for name in `cat names.txt`

do

shownamescript "$name" | grep "text_to_match"

done



I don't have BASH available to me at the time to test this, but your script will be something very similar to the above.



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Answer 2

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Answer 3

The follwing script does the job.

It assumes that the names are in names.txt

Replace it with the filename where all the names reside.

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