[ILUG] Little code, please

[Rory Browne]

On 5/2/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> Talking of scripts, could you please tell me
> the simplest script to search through "refer-like" files
> with items separated by a blank line, eg
>
> %n Tom
> %t 3
>
> %n Peter
> %t 17
>
> I'd like a script (in any known language), say "foo", so that
> "foo Tom" would print out
>
> %n Tom
> %t 3


I vote for awk
#!/bin/sh
cat text.txt |awk " \$2==\"$1\" {print \$4}" RS="\n\n"

that works in gawk - not sure about other awks.