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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help in assigning output of n commands to n variables automatically inside a for loop Post 302515634 by Corona688 on Wednesday 20th of April 2011 02:48:38 PM
Old 04-20-2011
If it's just numbers like 1|2|3|4, then

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

IFS="|"
# Read individual lines from inputfile
while read LINE
do
        # Split $LINE apart on IFS into the array CSI
        set -A CSI $LINE

        # Start at column 1.  Column 0 would be that time column
        N=1
        while [ ! -z "${CSI[$N]}" ]
        do
                # If the column is blank, set it to zero
                [ -z "${CS[$N]}" ] && ((CS[$N]=0))
                # Add the number to the column
                ((CS[$N] += CSI[$N]))
                # Add one to N
                ((N++))
        done
done < inputfile

N=1
while [ ! -z "${CS[$N]}" ]
do
        echo "cs$N=${CS[$N]}"
        ((N++))
done

Code:
$ cat >inputfile <<EOF
1|2|3|4
5|6|7|8
9|10|11|12
EOF
$ ./addcol.sh
cs1=18
cs2=21
cs3=24
$

---------- Post updated at 12:45 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:41 PM ----------

Updated to fit your data better:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

IFS="|"
# Read individual lines from inputfile
while read TIME LINE
do
        # Split $LINE apart on IFS into the array CSI
        set -A CSI $LINE

        N=0
        while [ ! -z "${CSI[$N]}" ]
        do
                [ -z "${CS[$N]}" ] && ((CS[$N]=0))
                ((CS[$N] += CSI[$N]))
                ((N++))
        done
done < inputfile

N=0
while [ ! -z "${CS[$N]}" ]
do
        echo "cs$N=${CS[$N]}"
        ((N++))
done

---------- Post updated at 12:48 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:45 PM ----------

...or just do it all in awk then read it once into the shell:

Code:
LINE="`awk -v FS='|' '{ for(N=2; N<=NF; N++) { T[N]+=$N; MAX=N; } }
END { for(N=2; N<=MAX; N++) printf("%s ", T[N]); printf("\n"); }' inputfile`"

set -A CS $LINE

N=0
while [ ! -z "${CS[$N]}" ]
do
        echo "CS$N=${CS[$N]}"
        ((N++))
done

 

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WCWIDTH(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						WCWIDTH(3)

NAME
wcwidth -- number of column positions of a wide-character code LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h> int wcwidth(wchar_t wc); DESCRIPTION
The wcwidth() function determines the number of column positions required to display the wide character wc. RETURN VALUES
The wcwidth() function returns 0 if the wc argument is a null wide character (L''), -1 if wc is not printable, otherwise it returns the number of column positions the character occupies. EXAMPLES
This code fragment reads text from standard input and breaks lines that are more than 20 column positions wide, similar to the fold(1) util- ity: wint_t ch; int column, w; column = 0; while ((ch = getwchar()) != WEOF) { w = wcwidth(ch); if (w > 0 && column + w >= 20) { putwchar(L' '); column = 0; } putwchar(ch); if (ch == L' ') column = 0; else if (w > 0) column += w; } SEE ALSO
iswprint(3), wcswidth(3) STANDARDS
The wcwidth() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). BSD
August 17, 2004 BSD
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