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In my simple database, it contains text of like, example, soldiers.

Name:Rank:Gender:Age:Years of Service

Tom Corporal:Recruit:Male:19:2
Nicole Sergeant:Corporal:Female:30:10
Daniel Recruit:Sergeant:Male:40:19

And my script goes like this:

echo "Enter name: "
read name

echo "Enter rank: "
read rank

echo "Enter gender: "
read gender

echo "Enter age: "
read age

echo "Enter Years of service: "
read years

grep $name database.txt

If I enter "Corporal" into name, the output will show

Tom Corporal:Recruit:Male:19:2
Nicole Sergeant:Corporal:Female:30:10

because the string matches under the section name and rank. How do i use delimiter : to categories the search, so if i enter my conditions under rank, it will search just the rank category and not everything else.

Thanks in advance.

In my simple database, it contains text of like, example, soldiers.

Name:Rank:Gender:Age:Years of Service

Tom Corporal:Recruit:Male:19:2
Nicole Sergeant:Corporal:Female:30:10
Daniel Recruit:Sergeant:Male:40:19

And my script goes like this:

echo "Enter name: "
read name

echo "Enter rank: "
read rank

echo "Enter gender: "
read gender

echo "Enter age: "
read age

echo "Enter Years of service: "
read years

grep $name database.txt

If I enter "Corporal" into name, the output will show

Tom Corporal:Recruit:Male:19:2
Nicole Sergeant:Corporal:Female:30:10

because the string matches under the section name and rank. How do i use delimiter : to categories the search, so if i enter my conditions under rank, it will search just the rank category and not everything else.

Thanks in advance.

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In my simple database, it contains text of like, example, soldiers.

Name:Rank:Gender:Age:Years of Service

Tom Tank:Recruit:Male:19:2
Nicole Dan:Corporal:Female:30:10
Daniel Ral:Sergeant:Male:40:19

And my script goes like this:

echo "Enter name: "
read name

echo "Enter rank: "
read rank

echo "Enter gender: "
read gender

echo "Enter age: "
read age

echo "Enter Years of service: "
read years

And if I want to find via the gender and i type in "male".

My code to find will be

grep $gender Information.txt | cut -f 3 -d “:”

However, that line does not work, any help ? Thanks in advance.

In my simple database, it contains text of like, example, soldiers.

Name:Rank:Gender:Age:Years of Service

Tom Corporal:Recruit:Male:19:2
Nicole Sergeant:Corporal:Female:30:10
Daniel Recruit:Sergeant:Male:40:19

And my script goes like this:

echo "Enter name: "
read name

echo "Enter rank: "
read rank

echo "Enter gender: "
read gender

echo "Enter age: "
read age

echo "Enter Years of service: "
read years

grep $name database.txt

If I enter "Corporal" into name, the output will show

Tom Corporal:Recruit:Male:19:2
Nicole Sergeant:Corporal:Female:30:10

because the string matches under the section name and rank. How do i use delimiter : to categories the search, so if i enter my conditions under rank, it will search just the rank category and not everything else.

Thanks in advance.

In my simple database, it contains text of like, example, soldiers.

Name:Rank:Gender:Age:Years of Service

Tom Tank:Recruit:Male:19:2 Nicole Dan:Corporal:Female:30:10 Daniel Ral:Sergeant:Male:40:19

And my script goes like this:

echo "Enter name: " read name

echo "Enter rank: " read rank

echo "Enter gender: " read gender

echo "Enter age: " read age

echo "Enter Years of service: " read years

And if I want to find via the gender and i type in "male".

My code to find will be grep $gender Information.txt | cut -f 3 -d “:”

However, that line does not work, any help ? Thanks in advance.

In my simple database, it contains text of like, example, soldiers.

Name:Rank:Gender:Age:Years of Service

Tom Tank:Recruit:Male:19:2
Nicole Dan:Corporal:Female:30:10
Daniel Ral:Sergeant:Male:40:19

And my script goes like this:

echo "Enter name: "
read name

echo "Enter rank: "
read rank

echo "Enter gender: "
read gender

echo "Enter age: "
read age

echo "Enter Years of service: "
read years

And if I want to find via the gender and i type in "male".

My code to find will be

grep $gender Information.txt | cut -f 3 -d “:”

However, that line does not work, any help ? Thanks in advance.