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Re: Unixx shel script - combing information from 2 files into one useing looping structur

#10

Apr 10th, 2008

have you read the line i gave about while loops? pseudocode.

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while read -r name number
do
     while read -r NAME NUM
     do
         if NAME is equal name
         then
              echo name NUM number         
     done < "file2"
done < "file1"
while read -r name number
do
     while read -r NAME NUM
     do
         if NAME is equal name
         then
              echo name NUM number         
     done < "file2"
done < "file1"