Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

Thank you all for your time and for suggestions provided.

Requirement:
1. I have configuration file which I need to read and parse the required data dynamically.

2. Conf file may contains the dir name. suppose we have a dir called "rc3.d" and it will having some value.


in this case How to handle the "." and evaluate it.

Sorry If I am asking repeated question.

File names and variable names are completely different namespaces. There is no problem having one or more periods in a filename.

However, I don't understand what you want. We don't usually talk about directories having values; directories contain files. Are the filenames of the files in your directory the value you want to "handle" or "evaluate"?

Hi Don,

Sorry, I think I have not conveyed the issue properly.

I am not talking about filename which contains "."
Requirement is we have a "rc3.d" dir and it contains some value lets say 12.

Then I need to read rc3.d and its value.

Hope you understand the issue now.

This makes absolutely no sense. If "dir" is not an abbreviation for "directory", what does it mean? If it is a directory, you need to understand that a directory is one type of file.

Please explain how you put the value 12 into the dir rc3.d???

Sorry, I am bit lazy, now onwards I will use absolute name. we are talking about "rc3.d" directory.

Q: how do I get the value for this "rc3.d" variable name?

A: I have to calculate number of files and directories which is under "rc3.d", then we will put it in a file as

rc3.d=12

I have to read this file and parse. For this I have written a script which posted in my previous threads.

I can tell you one more example.

IP=10.22.150.3

how to get the correct output with the code which I am proposed in my previous posts.

Where is the match? I see IP not I.P
...
If you cant understand our point then try to obey to this rule:
Do never use . or / naming a variable.
Have you ever seen a variable called MY/NAME ?
What do you think the shell will substitute when its sees
$MY/NAME or even $"MY/NAME"?

Now I hope you have an idea of how to modify your variable in order to use it ( by testing the above comments you should find how easy the workaround to your issue... Not giving you the solution to get you understand what is going on and why you cant use rc.etc like that, for your own good...)