printing in certain column based on some result

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hii every one can anybody help me writing shell script with this,
i have a file ...
amit
arun
vivek

and i want to read something from the user and print next to amit or arun in certain column.. like
amit 23-wall street 2000
arun 34343
vivek 4758

is it possibe with awk command.:confused:
can u please help.

2

awk can format output (as one possible solution)

please show input file and desired output file

3

actually i was trying to use a notepad as database..
like ..
name adress phonnum sex
amit 22-wall 1213 male
alena 12-asd 1243 female

actually. i want to take detail from user and place them as shown above..

can u please help.

4

Play around with something like:

awk '
BEGIN { printf "Enter your name adress phonenum sex: "
getline name < "-"
s=substr(name,1,match(name," ")-1)
}
$0==s{print name;next}
{print}' file
5

can u please elaborate the code ...

thanks

6 
awk '
BEGIN { printf "Enter your name adress phonenum sex: "
getline name < "-"
s=substr(name,1,match(name," ")-1)
}
$0==s{print name;next}
{print}' file

The code was just an example, left for you to adjust it for your own taste and not as a solution but here we go:

BEGIN { printf "Enter your name adress phonenum sex: "
getline name < "-"
s=substr(name,1,match(name," ")-1)
}

Ask for a name etc. and substract the name (first word till the first space).

$0==s{print name;next}

If we match the name print the name , adress etc.

{print}'

This prints the other lines.

Hope this helps.

Regard

7

it has been great help to me

thanks