Re: Script file to customize scs2ascii output -Assistance needed.

> 
> >/dev/null is to keep grep quiet... otherwise it would output 
> the line 
> >that
> matched.  If you want to see it when a match is found, then 
> you could take that out.  The break is there so when it finds 
> a match it breaks out of the loop, since there's no reason to 
> keep looping once a match is found.
> 
> If you want to pipe the output of scs2ascii through this 
> script, you would have to do it like so:
> 
> #! /bin/bash
> 
> file=`cat /dev/stdin`
> users="PHILLIP SAM RICHARD"
> 
> for user in $users; do
> echo "$file" | grep $user >/dev/null &&  echo "$file" > 
> /home/misadmin/"$user"_`date
> +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%m` && break
> done
> 

Thanks again, Toby... I look forward to using this information while
working on my little project over the weekend.

As a side note, O'Reilly Auto Parts came to our town, Monroe, NC., about
a year ago. :-)

Regards,
Mitch

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