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1. Simple phone utility

• here is a simple script which will look up someone’s phone number, we name this script ring

• #!/bin/sh
  
  grep -i $1 $HOME/phones

• we assume we have a plain text file in our home directory, called phones

• Fred Bloggs    01234 567890
  Joe  Smith     34567 890123

2. Ring use

• we can use the script via: ring joe and it generates

• Joe  Smith     34567 890123

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