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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to assign variable from a string having blanks in between Post 302086790 by Andrek on Sunday 27th of August 2006 07:26:16 PM
Old 08-27-2006
Hi
If your fields are separated by "spaces" then the simplest way for you to try is

cat filename | while read var1 var2 var3 var4
do
echo "This is field1: $var1
echo "This is field2: $var2
echo "This is field3: $var3
echo "This is field4: $var4
done

Once you have broken up the fields into different variables (var1 var2 var3 etc) yoiu can play around with them as you please....
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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