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Old 03-16-2015
Question Read multiple values into one variable
Hello everybody,

I am trying to assign multiple values from text into a single variable in bash.

Source TXT:

Code:
1 THIS IS THE ENTITY1 NAME1
2 THIS IS THE ENTITY2 NAME2
3 THIS IS THE ENTITY3 NAME3

Code:
  while read id entity name
     do
        printf "$id" "$entity" "$name"
done < "$sourceTXT"

In this example I want to assign "THIS IS THE ENTITY1" to $entity rather than "THIS"

Hope it is clear ..
Last edited by rbatte1; 03-17-2015 at 12:32 PM.. Reason: Added CODE tags
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Old 03-16-2015
Please use code tags as required by forum rules!

You can't. Unless you use different delimiters within the line. Workaround:
Code:
while read id A B C D name REST
     do entity="$A $B $C $D"
        printf "$id" "$entity" "$name"
     done < "$sourceTXT"

This User Gave Thanks to RudiC For This Post:
mrcrowley
# 3  
Old 03-16-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Please use code tags as required by forum rules!

You can't. Unless you use different delimiters within the line. Workaround:
Code:
while read id A B C D name REST
     do entity="$A $B $C $D"
        printf "$id" "$entity" "$name"
     done < "$sourceTXT"

Sorry for not following the rules.. That will help thank you
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