Bash script that analyzes report files

Question

I have the following bash script which I will use to analyze all report files in the current directory:

#!/bin/bash    


# methods
analyzeStructuralErrors()
{ 
         


        

Answer 1

As suggested by Dave Jarvis, awk will:

• handle this better than bash
• is fairly easy to learn
• likely available wherever bash is available

I've never had to look farther than The AWK Manual.

It would make things easier if you used a consistent field separator for both the list of column names and the data. Perhaps you could do some pre-processing in a bash script using sed before feeding to awk. Anyway, take a look at multi-dimensional arrays and reading multiple lines in the manual.