Print some results in a text file using script in linux

viriimind · 02-27-2011, 08:44 PM

hello everyone,
i really need your help to write a script which would just print following kind of result into a text file (result.txt)

Code:

XYZ test Results

ID: <unique-id>                Date: <date>

-------------------------------------------------
| Task         | Result    | Time      |
-------------------------------------------------
| <task1>      | <Result1> | <time1>   |
|              |           |           |
-------------------------------------------------

AD No: <adn>               Generated Date: <tdate>

above all the values of <something> are dynamic or predefined.

Please, kindly help to with this issue... Thanks in advance.

chrism01 · 02-27-2011, 10:10 PM

Just about any programming lang COULD do that, it's your choice... Personally I'd probably use Perl.
http://perldoc.perl.org/
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials

viriimind · 02-28-2011, 04:24 AM

I am just going to use printf for this now.. Thanks for your response.

soplin · 02-28-2011, 12:00 PM

Code:

echo "ID: $1               Date: $2 /n/n

-------------------------------------------------/n
| Task         | Result    | Time      |/n
-------------------------------------------------/n
| $3           | $4        | $5        |/n
|              |           |           |/n
-------------------------------------------------/n/n

AD No: $6              Generated Date: $2  "

You can start with some simple bash like this and perhaps combine sed and gawk.
Then you sh program.sh p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 > result.txt
where p are the parameters or you can chmod a+x program.sh and just ./program.sh p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 > result.txt

I get the feeling that this is homework.