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From: martin@lakesys.UUCP (Martin Wiedmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Shell script Database Help
Keywords: csh ksh database
Message-ID: <928@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 89 03:09:25 GMT
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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I'm writing a database in shell script. I've encountered a number of
problems, including how to change or delete particular records and searching 
for records by multiple criteria. The data is in single lines with tabs
sepatating fields. I have tried a number of approaches to no avail.

Can anyone drop me some code chunks or suggest some good books to help?

Thanks.

			Marty

BTW,
How come grep $FOO $BASE|grep $BAR|grep $BAR1 doesn't return a 1 if it fails, it
gives a 0 on success......

BASE=datafile
FOO, BAR & BAR1=user supplied variables
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	Marty Wiedmeyer

	martin@lakesys.lakesys.COM