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From: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.misc
Subject: Re: quick address database wanted
Summary: A faster way...
Keywords: database address name
Message-ID: <2587@sultra.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 01:43:10 GMT
References: <2699@ihwpt.ATT.COM> <7073@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: Tynan Computers, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <7073@dasys1.UUCP>, jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
> In article <2699@ihwpt.ATT.COM> dem@ihwpt.ATT.COM (David E. Martin) writes:
> >Does anyone have a quick (probably a couple of shell scripts)
> >phone and address database?  I'm sure I could write something
> >up, but I hate to duplicate the effort.
> 
> I've called mine '411', which is what you use to dial information...
> 
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> Time is nature's way of				Jean-Pierre Radley
> making sure that everything			jpr@dasys1.UUCP
> doesn't happen all at once.			CIS: 76120,1341

Although the above probably works real well, I just use a CSH alias.  I guess
it could be done with the Korn shell too, but I don't have access to it...
This appears in my .cshrc;

alias phone 'grep -i \!$ /u/dtynan/.phonelist'

The file .phonelist has the format
Joe Isuzu		Isuzu Corporation, Japan	(408) 555-1212

If I type 'phone joe', I get what I want.  I can't take the original credit
for this, as far as I remember I ripped off the original idea from Bud
Carlson, when he was at Megatest...
						- Der
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