Need script help.

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 6/21/07, Jeffrey McCright <jmccright at 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 at hotmail.com
>

If your friend can give a sample dataset, I can whip up a Python script ASAP.

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