Linux shell script read columns into variable and then add the attribute - linux

Question

I have a file test.txt looking like this:
2092 Mary
103 Tom
1239 Mary
204 Mark
1294 Tom
1092 Mary
I am trying to create a shell script that will
Read each line and put the data in two columns into variable var1 and var2
If var2 in each line is the same, then add the var1 in those lines.
output the file into a text file.
The result should be unique values in the var2 column. Here's what I have so far:
#!/bin/sh
#!/usr/bin/sh
cat test.txt| while read line;
do
$var1=$(echo $line| awk -F\; '{print $1}')
$var2=$(echo $line| awk -F\; '{print $2}')
How can I reference the variable in each line and then compare them?
The expected output would be:
4423 Mary
1397 Tom
204 Mark

Answer 1

Using awk it is easy:
awk '{sum[$2] += $1} END {for (i in sum) printf "%4d %s\n", sum[i], i; }'
If you want to do it with bash 4.x (not 3.x), then:
declare -A sum
while read number name
do
((sum[$name] += $number))
done
for name in "${!sum[#]}"
do
echo ${sum[$name]} $name
done
The structure here is essentially isomorphic with the awk script, but a little less notationally convenient. It will read from standard input, using the names as indexes into the associative array sum. The ${!sum[#]} notation is described in the Shell Parameter Expansion section of the manual, and not even hinted at in the section on Arrays. The information is there if you know where to look.
If you want to process an arbitrary number of input files (like the awk script would) then you need to use cat to collect the data:
cat "$#" |
{
declare -A sum
while read number name
do
((sum[$name] += $number))
done
for name in "${!sum[#]}"
do
echo ${sum[$name]} $name
done
}
This is not UUOC because it handles no arguments (read standard input), one argument or many arguments.
For all the scripts, if you want to sort the output in number or name order, apply an appropriate sort to the output of the script:
script file1 file2 file3 | sort -k 1,1n # By sum increasing order
script file1 file2 file3 | sort -k 1,1nr # By sum decreasing order
script file1 file2 file3 | sort -k 2,2 # By name increasing order
script file1 file2 file3 | sort -k 2,2r # By name decreasing order