Bash scripting - Newbie

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all,
I have drill to do and I'll very appreciate your help:

Please create a simple CSV file as follow (3 columns and 4 rows):

   A,B,C
   A,�B,C�,D
   �A,B�,C,D
o A,B,�C,D�

  • Please refer to the comma between the quotation marks as a parameter and not as a separator.

  • Please provide a script asking the column and the row number and print its content.

Thanks in advanced!

2

Welcome to the forums.
So is this homework? have you started with something?

3

hhhhhh.. no this isn't homework I'm 24 years old :slight_smile:
I have been studying it for myself.
This drill taken from a training book that I found, but I have no idea how to do it.

4

Heya

Well, working with the stuff from the book, i dont think that this is the first thing to do for you.
You might want to search the book index for 'IFS' and 'do/while loop' to read files.
If there's a chapter about AWK, then that might be interesting as well.

In my consideration, that (awk) would be advanced, while the 'IFS while loop' would be basic/intermediate (for you).

hth