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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.misc
Subject: Re: quick address database wanted
Keywords: database address name
Message-ID: <7122@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 88 02:46:38 GMT
References: <2699@ihwpt.ATT.COM> <7073@dasys1.UUCP> <2587@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <2587@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>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...
>> ----cut----here----
>	[Deleted for brevity]
>> ----cut----here----
>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'

And the alias I have in use is f11:
	alias f11 look \!* /pub/lib/411
which finds things very quickly. My /pub/lib/411 is sorted, last names
being first.

The grep alias would turn up every Joe in the list, which may or may not
be annoying, just as my f11 alias would turn up every family or business
named Smith.

But the 411 shell script, while certainly slower, allows me to ask

411 joe japan	# finds, inter alia, smith:joe:201-444-5555:speaks japanese
	or
411 smith ann	# finds, inter alia, leann smithson
	or
411 214- hop	# finds, inter alia, hopkins in dallas area, chop house at
		  214-56 178th road

As I keep 1700 numbers in this list, I like to be able to give two or
three keys to narrow the search.
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