Need Help in Bash Script

[LinuxPet]

Hey Guys. Im having a lot of trouble with the following .

I have this data
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Arrival Date Manufacturer Price
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05/01/65 HP $140
04/2/05 Compaq $200
02/5/05 Test $300

All data lines up...what i want to do is SORT by arrival date and manufacuter and price.

Example sort by arrival date (will just show arrival dates in another text file)

Ive tried using AWK command to look at "" then input files into a temp file but it never gives the correct data.

The other question is how would i get the user to specify a line delete.

Example i wanna delete line 2 (what code would do this?)

Any help would be much appreciated ))) .......

All i really need is the code how to sort data and show it and how to delete a row specifed by the user.

[ghostdog74]

show your awk code

[LinuxPet]

awk -f database.sh {print $1}

what I wanted that to do is look in the databse which has the information above and basically print the first column (All arrival dates)

I have just started with linux programming so im a 100% newbie.

So it would show

05/01/85
04/2/05
02/5/05

Is that command correct in bash?

[LinuxPet]

Hi all,

using bash script


using this command:

echo -n "Please enter search data"
read $Data

awk '/$Data/ {Print $1}' database.sh

It shows nothing.....but if i put a value from the databse their


awk '/HP/ {Print $1}' database.sh it shows all data that has the words HP in it.

I want it to grab what the user put in and search for that.

Does anyone know how to program that and if im doing it wrong or not>