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# 1  
Old 01-10-2012
Assigning entire to a variable
Hi,

Need help on the below topic.

I am looping finger command and trying to get each line content into a variable. Output of finger command produces more than one line and each line was multiple words.
Code:
for get_line in `finger`
do
   echo "Finger Value: ${get_line}'"
done

The issue is entire line is not coming into $get_line, i am getting each word from a single line into a different line.

Please help me how to get entire line content into variable.

Thanks in advance.

Venkat
Last edited by Franklin52; 01-11-2012 at 03:24 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
# 2  
Old 01-10-2012
Please provide more input as to what exactly you want to do with the output of "finger" command. May be it'll help us to think of an alternate solution.

You can do a line by line parsing using awk or perl.

For e.g. finger | awk 'NR==1 {print}' would print just the first line from the output of finger equivalent to finger | head -1

You could do x=`finger` to get the entire output of finger in variable 'x'
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# 3  
Old 01-10-2012
Code:
while read get_line
do
        echo "Finger Value: ${get_line}"
done < <(finger)

# 4  
Old 01-10-2012
Code:
 
while read line
do
    myvar=$(finger $line)
    echo "$myvar"
done < userlist.txt

# 5  
Old 01-10-2012
Hi balajesuri,

The finger output is as follows
Code:
$ finger
Login Name TTY Idle When Site Info
projdev US DEV projdev p2 Tue 19:13 , Created@03262008
projuser US DEV projuser p3 Tue 19:14 , Created@03262008
projdev US DEV projdev p4 Tue 19:15 , Created@03262008

I will pass username "projdev" to the script, the script pickup anyone line which has got this username and return name value (US DEV projdev)

Code:
for get_line in `finger`
do
  echo "Finger Value: ${get_line}'"
done

When i execute the above script, i am getting output like this....

Code:
$ sh b.sh
 
username: projdev
Finger Value1: Login'
Finger Value1: Name'
Finger Value1: TTY'
Finger Value1: Idle'
Finger Value1: When'
Finger Value1: Site'
Finger Value1: Info'
Finger Value1: projdev'
Finger Value1: US'
Finger Value1: DEV'
Finger Value1: projdev'
Finger Value1: p2'
Finger Value1: Tue'

I am looking for output like shown below
Code:
Finger Value1: Login Name TTY Idle When Site Info
Finger Value1: projdev US DEV projdev p2 Tue 19:13 , Created@03262008
Finger Value1: projuser US DEV projuser p3 Tue 19:14 , Created@03262008
Finger Value1: projdev US DEV projdev p4 Tue 19:15 , Created@03262008


Thanks in advance.

Venkat
Last edited by Franklin52; 01-11-2012 at 03:25 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
# 6  
Old 01-11-2012
Did you try the solution posted in post #3 by huaihaizi3?
# 7  
Old 01-11-2012
Hi Balajesuri,

I tried that one, the result is not coming properly...
Code:
i=0
while read get_line
do
   echo "$i: Finger Value: ${get_line}"
   i=`expr $i + 1`
done < `finger`
 
 
b.sh[6]: Login                               Name               TTY Idle    When    Site Info^projdev                         US DEV projdev   p2         Tue 19:13   , Created@03262008: 0403-016 Cannot find or open the file.

Thanks,
Venkat
Last edited by Franklin52; 01-11-2012 at 03:26 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
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