Need script help.

[Jeffrey McCright]

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 at hotmail.com

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