Hello! i hope somebody can help me.
I would like to have help with an shell script(sh) assignment.
I have a file and it contains something like the following text:

02gozal:godam:godhar:TGFGK:halllo
23david:david:edsson:FDSFF:halllo
32farad:fazdg:forum:HGHJ:halllo
and so on...
Now I want a script code to take this file and print out the following text.. (skriptexample.sh textx.txt)

23david david, edsson
32farad fazdg, forum
02gozal godam, godhar
and on...

The last word should be in a alphabetical order.

I have started writing down the code:

sort -k3 -t: $1 | cut -f1,2,3 -d':' |
after this it get's a little bit confusing
while
IFS=:
read a
read b
read c
do
echo "$a $b $c"
done

So please help me, a really want to know but I don't know what to do :(
I hope you can email me and help me /Anja

Hi:

Why not use awk to parse the file and sort on the 3rd field:

awk ' BEGIN { FS=":" }
{
printf("%s %s, %s\n", $1, $2, $3)
} ' file.txt|sort -k 3,3

Regards,

Nails

Hi,

a sh solution could be

IFS=:
sort -k3 -t: bla.txt | while read a b c rest
do
echo $a $b $c
done
IFS='
'

No RISK no fun

Frank