Good afternoon all!
I am writing an address book for a class that I have, and am stuck on this last part. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
When the user selects the "Edit existing record" option, I can't figure out how to make the file overwrite the previous record. As it stands now, it makes a new record with the new data, leaving the old record intact.
Currently written in bash.
Thank you in advance for your assistance!
3)
echo
echo "You have chose to Edit an Existing Entry"
echo "Enter part or all of a name/phone# or address"
echo
read search
choiceLine=`grep -i "$search" addressbook.txt`
oldName=`echo $choiceLine|cut -d ":" -f1`
oldPhone=`echo $choiceLine|cut -d ":" -f2`
oldAddress=`echo $choiceLine|cut -d ":" -f3`
echo "You have chosen to search for : $search"
grep -v "$search" addressbook.txt > addressbook.tmp
echo "If you don't wish to change the name, press enter"
echo -n "The name [ $oldName ] will be changed to: "
read name
if [ -z "$name" ]; then
name=$oldName
fi
echo "The previous phone number was: $oldPhone"
echo "If you don't wish to change the number, press enter"
echo -en "Please enter a new phone number: "
read phone
if [ -z "$phone" ]; then
phone=$oldPhone
fi
echo "The previous address was: $oldAddress"
echo "If you don't wish to change the address, press enter"
echo -en "Please enter a new address: "
read address
if [ -z "$address" ]; then
address=$oldAddress
fi
echo "${name}:${phone}:${address}" >> addressbook.txt
;;
Again, thank you for taking the time to point out my error(s)
- Jim
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