Shell script quoting and line read line

[DannyMc]

Hi all,

I am in the progress of consolidating my 2 NIS databases into 1. My first step is to get the NIS record for particular department. I have software.csv which contain list of name in.

software.csv:
John Travolta
Elthon John
Sean King Ston
Taylor Swif t
Nicole cage
.......

I create a simple script to read from software.csv , called genlist.sh

#!/bin/sh
list_source="software.csv"
cat $list_source | while read LINE; do
N=$((N=1))
echo '"${LINE}"'
ypcat passwd | grep \"$LINE\"
done

My output is:
John Travolta
grep: Travolta": No such file or directory
Elthon John
grep: John": No such file or directory
Sean King Ston
grep: King: No such file or directory
grep: Ston": No such file or directory
Taylor Swif t
grep: Swif: No such file or directory
grep: t": No such file or directory

I tried with many way to play around with my second last line but still not able to resolve.

Can anyone please help me in this case? Your help is appreciated!

[jsmithstl]

Can you put an example of what your want your output to look like? How big is your software.csv file? Do you have to write this in sh or is perl an option?