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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting parsing a config file using bash Post 302537093 by nano2 on Thursday 7th of July 2011 05:10:47 AM
Old 07-07-2011
parsing a config file using bash
Hi ,

I have a config _file that has 3 columns (Id Name Value ) with many rows . In my bash script i want to be able to parse the file and do a mapping of any Id value
so if i have Id of say brand1 then i can use the name (server5X) and Value (CCCC) and so on ...

Id Name Value
brand1 server5X CCCC
vbn hhhh tyiowq
we yyyu yyyooooooo
12BB das_12 eqwr12
--
--
--
I was something like so which is not working .
Code:
#!/bin/bash
IFS=,
while read var1 var2 var3
do
echo "$var1 , $var2, $var3 
done < "config_file"

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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