Question

How can i grep a nearer word from a file ?

E.g

04-02-2010  Workingday
05-02-2010  Workingday
06-02-2010  Workingday
07-02-2010  Holiday
08-02-2010  Workingday
09-02-2010  Workingday

I stored above data in a file ‘feb2010’,

By this commend i stored date in one variable date=date ‘+%d-%m-%Y’

if date is 06-02-2010 , i want to grep ” 06-02-2010 Workingday “

and want to store the string Working day in a variable

• How can i do this ?
• Is there any other option ?

Answer 1

daytype=`grep $date feb2010 | cut -c13-`

The grep outputs the line, then the cut cuts off everything before the 13th character on that line. (Another possibility is cut -f3 -d' ', which outputs the field after the second space.) The result is stored in the variable daytype.

This assumes that the date occurs only once in the file.