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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Not able to assign a value to variable Post 302336354 by rakeshawasthi on Wednesday 22nd of July 2009 01:09:48 AM

07-22-2009

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Originally Posted by Amey Joshi

Hi Experts,

I am facing some problem while developing the script.My input config.csv file contains the three columns namely pathname,filename,filetype.Based on the file type i have to use ftp command that is if filetype=csv then do ftp.
The input file is

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cat config.csv
pathname,filename,filetype
/home/fir/dir,filename1,csv
/home/fir1/dir,filename2,csv
/home/fir4/dir,filename3,csv
/home/fir/dir6,filename4,dat

To achieve this i have developed the following script:

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#!/bin/ksh
head -5 config.csv | while read line
do
Type1=`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $3}'`
Type=`echo $Type1 | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
if [ $Type == 'csv' ]
 then
   DataFileName=`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $2}'`
   DataPath=`echo $line| awk -F"," '{print $1}'`
   echo $DataPath
   slash=`echo '\'`
   filelocation=`echo $DataPath$slash$DataFileName`
   echo do sftp -n
fi
done

Now the problem is that the value of DataPath variable is coming as

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echo $DataPath
homefirdir

Some how the slashes are getting removed. Smilie

How can we achieve the variable value as '/home/fir/dir ' and pass it to ftp command?

Thanks in Advance!

For me your code works just fine... Smilie

try the solution given above, if you still have a problem debug using set -x.

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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