The '|' character is a pipe. Basically what it does is send the output of one command which would otherwise go to stdout, in as the input to the next command.

The final sort and print doesn't...

Sorting a delimited file

for example if your record is and you want to sort it by the 3rd field,

a:b:c

sort -t':' -k 3

To sort it in numeric order add a -n to the line

The while loop was pseudocode to give you an idea of what you might need. I am sorry if I confused you.

Check out this tutorial (http://www.linuxcommand.org/writing_shell_scripts.php), that...

One way to do it, also assuming know how many instances of it you want to run, is in a loop, start the process in the background.

while (x < counter){
./process&
x++;
}

You could make this much easier :)

Once you have your output file with the values, all you really need to do is cat the output and pipe it into the sort. <Check the man pages for the sort and...

Position works the same way as name does. You need to get the final field which is the position for that particular id, and not for a character string at the end of the line. That'll get you all the...

I usually declare the arrays at the top of the script.

Something like this perhaps ? It uses 2 arrays one to store the names and the other to store the sales values.

I am not sure why your awk...

You have the correct idea, but a couple of things.

1. When you extract the name from the associates file you also need to use the ID as a pattern to get the correct name.

2. You can declare the...

Well, in basic bash scripting you cannot add floating point numbers, and i assume your price is floating point.

So in order to add those numbers you need the bc command to do this, hence the...

It will be easier for you to debug this, if you break it up into smaller scripts to make sure each part is being done correctly.

A couple of things. $$ is usually the process id of -bash, so you...

You accidentally removed the $ before the QUANT. Put that back in, and you'll be fine.

Your syntax errors are because of these 2 lines.

TOTAL=${echo "scale=2; $PRICE*QUANT" | bc)
echo "Associate 2$ID made $TOTAL for selling $PRODID


They should be (Need a ( bracket in line 1 ...

Ok, I think this is roughly what you are looking for. You will still need to fine tune it to get the final answers you need. Some parts are hard coded, like assuming your associate id's range from 21...

The shell is basically a program that takes your keyboard input, usually at a command prompt and gives it to the operating system to process it. You can also put shell commands into a file and...

This is a basic bash scripting tutorial http://www.linuxcommand.org/writing_shell_scripts.php I found which is quite helpful, and takes you through simple scripting step by step. This explains shell...

This is interesting, and I was able to solve it using a couple of passes with pipes. For me its just easier to break it up into the steps that you explained and go through them one by one, and use...

With bash if you are typing on the command line you can just type

$ expr 2 + 4
6

If you are putting it in a file, you can do

#! /bin/bash

expr 2 + 4

Hello,

I need to figure out the sizes of different data types in a bash script. I haven't been able to make it work with sizeof(), is there an alternative ?

Thanks a lot.