Hi everyone...

I posted about this before, but I'm still having some problems. My script below reads (or trys to at least) read in lines of a file and then see if some part of the line matches the input from the user, $1..

Here's a sample text file that I have been using with some random images... if I search for "cookie", the image for cookie is displayed 8 times... I want it to display once.. and if I search for book.. i want picture 7 and 1 to show up..

Any help would be REALLY appreciated.. thanks.

glg2296/art/images/picture1.jpg:author:cookie
glg2296/art/images/picture2.jpg:author:chair
glg2296/art/images/picture3.jpg:author:apple
glg2296/art/images/picture4.jpg:author:grapes
glg2296/art/images/picture5.jpg:author:car
glg2296/art/images/picture6.jpg:author:monkey
glg2296/art/images/picture7.jpg:author:book
glg2296/art/images/picture1.jpg:author:book

#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo

counter=`wc -l "

for (( i=0; i"

#cat line.txt

#grep "$1" database.txt >temp.txt

#grep "$1" $line > results.txt

grep $1 database.txt> temp.txt

#cat temp.txt

p=`awk -F: '{print $1}' temp.txt | sed 's#//##'`
#p=`awk -F: '{print $1}' results.txt | sed 's#//##'`

#cat temp.txt
echo ""
echo ""

#rm temp.txt

Gordy:

A common technique is to use the uniq command:

# untested
p=`awk -F: '{print $1}' temp.txt |uniq| sed 's#//##'`

Regards,

Nails