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Old 12-09-2008
Creating a dynamic case statement
I'm using the korn shell and trying to create a case statement from the contents of a file that is changed regularly,
each line of the file has three fields,
eg
track1 202.111.111.111 99
room7 222.111.222.333 76

I'm using awk to select each variable. I've been unable to figure out how to do this
does anyone have any suggestions on?
Last edited by squrcles; 12-09-2008 at 07:06 AM.. Reason: ammending for clarity
# 2  
Old 12-09-2008
Kindly make it clear. What is the expected o/p on the above i/p?
Or what are you trying to achieve?
# 3  
Old 12-09-2008
the i/p value is not relevant, all that is required is to make a case statement using the contents of a a file that is regularly changed

case "$var" in
track1)
commands;
;;
room7)
commands;
;;
*)
commands;
;;
esac
Last edited by squrcles; 12-09-2008 at 08:10 AM..
# 4  
Old 12-18-2008
One of my highly skilled colleagues has pointed me in the direction of the select statement which is perfect for my requirements
# 5  
Old 12-18-2008
Creating a dynamic case statement
try this:-
while read var1 var2 var3
do
case $var1 in
track1)
echo $var1 $var3 $var2
;;
room7)
commands;
;;
*)
commands;
;;
esac
done < INPUTFILE
# 6  
Old 12-19-2008
my final solution

cat > /var/tmp/list <<EOF
track1 202.111.111.111 99
room7 222.111.222.333 76
EOF
select i in `cat /var/tmp/list | awk '{print $1}`
do
echo `grep $i /var/tmp/list`
done
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