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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Pulling Parms from Config File Post 302753943 by Corona688 on Wednesday 9th of January 2013 04:44:01 PM
Old 01-09-2013
Do you get to pick what your config file looks like? I'd have a config file like this:

Code:
DayOfWeek=Fri
SomethingElse=whatever

...which you could load directly just by doing . /path/to/configfile Note the space between the dot and the file. Dot is an operarator here, for 'source', which runs lines from that file in your own script.

If you're stuck with a config file like that one though, I might try this:
Code:
while read VAR VALUE
do
        if [ ! -z "$VAR" ]
        then
                read $VAR <<EOF
$VALUE
EOF
        fi
done < configfile

The trick is, read takes a variable name. So VAR=ABCD ; read $VAR reads into the ABCD variable.
 

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