Script to screen bulk resumes

[vijay_kernel]

Hi,

Can anyone help me in writing a script which does screening thousands of resumes based on few criteria.

Script should be able to open a file , search for some keywords in the file , if found copy the file to a specified path.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

THANKS in advance......

[ghostdog74]

Hi,

Can anyone help me in writing a script which does screening thousands of resumes based on few criteria.

Script should be able to open a file , search for some keywords in the file , if found copy the file to a specified path.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

THANKS in advance......

many tools are available in *nix that can open files and do things to them. sed/awk/grep/perl/python etc..
To get you started

for files in *
do
  grep "search_string" $file > /dev/null
  if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
    cp <file> <destination>
  fi 
done

See my sig for some reference to shell scripting.

[vijay_kernel]

Thanks for you help

[vijay_kernel]

Thanks you very much "ghostdog74" , you made my job easier ........

[drl]

Hi.

Are your resume files in plain text or in a word-processor format? ... cheers, drl

[Cabhan]

That was my first thought. If your files are in plaintext, then everything is happy.

However, since you're dealing with resumes, I imagine that most are in PDF or some such format, in which case life gets a bit different. Grep et al. only deal with plain text. You need to somehow convert the formatted text into plain text.

For instance, there is a utility called pdftotext. To use it, you might do:

if pdftotext "$pdf_file" - | grep -q "$keyword"; then
    ...
fi

Now grep is dealing with plain text.