function report
{
clear
echo "Name, Position, Department, Salary"
echo "========================================"
awk 'BEGIN{FS=","; RS="\n"} {printf "%s, %s, %s, %s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4}'...

sorry bout that....my net got dc-ed halfway thru posting and i copied my whole post, didnt realise that code tags wont appear when copied...

anyway i tried taking off the $ sign but it still gives...

#5report
function report
{
clear
echo "Name, Position, Department, Salary"
echo "========================================"
awk 'BEGIN{FS=","; RS="\n"} {printf "%s, %s, %s, %s\n", $1, $2, $3,...

ok so I tried this on my data file which contains records:
Name, Dept, Job, Pay
John, Finance, Accountant, $2000

read -p "Enter name of Employee to Remove?: " remEmp
tr -d "grep -n -i $remEmp...

thanks that helped alot

by the way, if i want to say delete a line of record, can i use the
tr -d?? Because I have been searching the Bash commands and havent found and delete command for shell...

ok what i need to do is to make a script function which allows me to change the records in a file. I read some other posts about using sed but i still could not get it to work. The function runs But...

I am doing a shell script to be able to read some records from a file, then ask the user to input a name. The script should then be able to search the records and only print out the requested record....