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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting reading variable value from a file Post 302365809 by ahmad.diab on Wednesday 28th of October 2009 05:50:48 AM
Old 10-28-2009
Code:-

Code:
nawk -F"(=| )" '
(FNR==NR){a[$1]=$2 ; next}
{r=($1 in a) ?  $1"-->"a[$1] :  $1 ; print r}
' b.txt a.txt

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FLARE(6)							 flare User Manual							  FLARE(6)

NAME
flare - diablo like rpg game DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the game flare and the files it uses. flare is a diablo like rpg game. FILES
settings.txt flare does not have a settings dialogue yet. You can manipulate flare's settings in the settings.txt instead. It is located in one of the following paths: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/flare $HOME/.config/flare ./config keybindings.txt You can manipulate flare's default key bindings in this file. It is located in one of the following paths: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/flare $HOME/.config/flare ./config save[0-9]{?}.txt Savegames are simple txt files in flare. You can find them at one of these places: $XDG_DATA_HOME/flare $HOME/.local/share/flare ./saves If permissions are correct, the game is automatically saved when you exit. ENVIONMENT
XDG_CONFIG_HOME, $XDG_DATA_HOME flare follows the XDG stanard, see FILES section above. BUGS
If you should find a bug in flare, please report it at the official BTS at: https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare/issues. AUTHOR
Jan-Hendrik Peters <hennr@hennr.name> Wrote this manpage for the Debian system. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Jan-Hendrik Peters This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. flare 12/26/2011 FLARE(6)
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