Shell Contact Book

A simple contact book program using shell script.

Features

• To add an entry
• Display all saved contacts details
• Sort and Search by contact name or number in the phonebook database
• Delete and Modify entry
• Quit
  • When add an entry it gets added to a phonebook.txt file
  • When lookup and entry it gets the entry details from a phonebook.txt file
  • When you view all entries it gets them from a phonebook.txt file

Commands to run

• Create txt file to save entry touch phonebook.txt
• Modifies file permission chmod +x phonebook.txt

Related resources

• Linuxize: Find & Replace inside a text file.
• GeeksforGeeks: Sort records in a particular order.
• PhoenixNAP: Search a file for a particular pattern of characters.
• Linuxhint: Create, View & Append file.