KSH help....cuts and greps?

[AdamCoombs]

Ok,
I have a file that looks like:
1 Bob
2 Fred
3 Barry
etc etc.
i need to search on the number and print the name..easy when there is only 9 people in the file..cos i can grep the number out and then pipe it through an awk to print $2 BUT when it get to double figures, if you grep "1" then it will also come up with 11, 12 etc etc...
cant go a fgrep -x, tried to cut the first coloum out but then dont know how to print the second field..
any ideas?

thanks
Adam

 

[Salem]

num=123
awk '$1=="'$num'"{print $2}' file

 

[usige]

If you are using awk to print it, you could just grab the line with awk instead of grep. ie:

#!/bin/sh

echo -n "Enter a number: "
read pattern
awk "\$1 ~ /^$pattern\$/ "' { print $2 } ' /file/to/parse

Hope that helps.

 

[AdamCoombs]

Superb..
thanks for the help chaps..
done the job....

 

[pavNell]

Try grep with the -w option. -w searches for the "Word".


grep -w "1" | awk '{print $2}'

 

[SamBones]

Or this...

   grep "^1 " filename

Hope this helps.