awk question

dilberim82 · 10-01-2003, 10:39 AM

I am trying to write a program with awk. I have a file with
Name:Birthday:PhoneNumber:Email of my friends. I want to match the date of that month to the month of the birthday and e-mail that line to myself. Everything is done except i cannot match the date.
awk -F: '$2 == "03/11/1982" {print $1, $2, $3, $4} ' ./bd
works. But how can i match the first two numbers of birtday to date and print everything?

SaTaN · 10-01-2003, 11:39 AM

cat bday.txt | awk -F : 'BEGIN{"date +%m"|getline month ; "date +%d"| getline num} { split($2,a,"/");if((a[1]==num)&&(a[2]==month)){print $1" "$2" "$3" "$4}}'

The output would be all the fields of those who have their birthdays today....

dilberim82 · 10-01-2003, 07:12 PM

It did not work the first time i tried but i got it to work... I had everything setup [month/date/year] so i had to switch month and num in your if statement.

Thanks alot

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