Shell Programming and Scripting

hope below shell can help you some

Code:

find=$1
a='attr1=value1 attr2=value2 attr3=value3 attr4=value4'
set $a
while [ $# -gt 0 ];do
key=`echo ${1%=*}`
val=`echo ${1#*=}`
echo $key "--" $val
if [ $key = $find ];then
echo $val
break
fi
shift
done
echo "Finish searching..."

If you are using ksh93 you could use associative arrays

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ksh93

typeset -A aArray

str="attr1=value1 attr2=value2 attr3=value3 attr4=value4"


# split string and store in temporary array
IFS="= " typeset -a tArray=($str)

# populate associative array
for ((i = 0; i < ${#tArray[@]}; i++))
do
     aArray[${tArray[i]}]=${tArray[++i]}
done

# print contents of associative array
for i in "${!aArray[@]}"
do
     print "aArray[$i] is ${aArray[$i]}"
done

Thank you very much for all your responses.

-----Post Update-----

Curious as what changes should I do in the below script inorder to handle cases that contains values vales with spaces in it?
for eg. string"attr1=value1 attr2=value 2 attr3=value3 attr4=value4"


string"attr1=value1 attr2=value2 attr3=value3 attr4=value4"
name=attr2
temp=${string#*"$name"=}
echo "${temp%% *}"

-----Post Update-----

Curious as what changes should I do in the below script inorder to handle cases that contains values vales with spaces in it?
for eg. string"attr1=value1 attr2=value 2 attr3=value3 attr4=value4"


string"attr1=value1 attr2=value2 attr3=value3 attr4=value4"
name=attr2
temp=${string#*"$name"=}
echo "${temp%% *}"