removing a line from a file and then placing into another file

magnia

grep `whoami` $1 >> file

this lets me take out the username from a file and then i move it to a file but i need it to do one step at a time because i want the occurences to be numbered like

1)HOME=/home/joe.bloggs
2)LOGNAME=joe.bloggs


instead of just

HOME=/home/joe.bloggs
LOGNAME=joe.bloggs

Khannie

Is there a question in there? I'm a bit lost tbh.

magnia

grep `whoami` $1 >> file

this is extract the information i need. everytime grep finds an occurence of the username it grabs that line of the file and then i move it to another file but how do i grab it and then add the number to it like if its the first occurence the number would be 1 and then add a bracket so it would look like

1)HOME=/home/joe.bloggs
2)LOGNAME=joe.bloggs

how do i do that

AndrewMc

magnia wrote:

grep `whoami` $1 >> file

this is extract the information i need. everytime grep finds an occurence of the username it grabs that line of the file and then i move it to another file but how do i grab it and then add the number to it like if its the first occurence the number would be 1 and then add a bracket so it would look like

1)HOME=/home/joe.bloggs
2)LOGNAME=joe.bloggs

how do i do that

You can use 'cat -n' to add line numbers, such as:

grep `whoami` $1 | cat -n >> file

The line numbers cat adds aren't quite in the same format as you describe. If you need exactly that format, you could use:

grep `whoami` $1 | awk '{print NR")"$0}' >> file

magnia

yeah i had it done with awks and my gay tutor said were not allowed use them or seds anyone any ideas

Snowbat

#!/bin/bash
COUNTER=1
for i in `grep \`whoami\` $1`
do
        echo "$COUNTER)$i" >> file
        let COUNTER+=1
done