Bash Question, Help Needed

[Xqtftqx]

Hello, im working on a small bash script project. I need some help on doing the following task:

Say i have this in a file:


Name: John
Age: 54

Name: Jamie
Age: 53

Name: Kody
Age: 23


I know i can output all the names by doing "grep "Name:" File.txt

But How could i make my program output this:



Name: John, 54
Name: Jamie, 53
Name: Kody, 23


Any Help would be appreciated thank you

[MadCow108]

probably very stupid (but working) solution for that specific file format:
is missing error handling completely


#!/bin/bash
while read line
do
name=`echo $line | sed -e "s/Name: \(.*\)/\1/"`
read line
age=`echo $line | sed -e "s/Age: \(.*\)/\1/"`
read line
echo "Name: $name, $age"
done < file.txt

[diesch]

echo "Name:" $(grep -A1 'Name: John' your_file.txt | cut -d: -f2)

edit: sorry, misread the question. Maybe it's still usefull ;-)

[eightmillion]

I'm not that great with awk, and there's probably a better way to do this, but this gets the job done.

awk '/^Name:/{name=$2}/^Age:/{age=$2; printf("Name: %s, %s\n", name,age)}' file.txt

[ghostdog74]

awk -vRS="" -vOFS=" " '{$1=$1}1' file

output


$ ./shell.sh
Name: John Age: 54
Name: Jamie Age: 53
Name: Kody Age: 23