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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading variables from a file Post 302561572 by AndyG on Tuesday 4th of October 2011 12:53:27 PM
Old 10-04-2011
That was just a simple example, in reality we will have a file that contains lots of files, and actions that we want to do with them. All the file names will begin with variables like $ORACLE_HOME etc.. i.e:

DELETE:$ORACLE_HOME/bin/test.log

We will then then cut out the action and apply it to the file - there could be a long list of files.

We just need it to substitute the variable value, rather than keeping the variable itself.

Regards,
Andy
 

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DEVSCRIPTS.CONF(5)						File Formats Manual						DEVSCRIPTS.CONF(5)

NAME

       devscripts.conf - configuration file for the devscripts package

DESCRIPTION

       The  devscripts	package provides a collection of scripts which may be of use to Debian developers and others wishing to build Debian pack-
       ages.  Many of these have options which can be configured on a system-wide and per-user basis.

       Every script in the devscripts package which makes use of values from these configuration files describes the specific settings	recognised
       in its own manpage.  (For a list of the scripts, either see /usr/share/doc/devscripts/README.gz or look at the output of dpkg -L devscripts
       | grep /usr/bin.)

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PACKAGE-WIDE VARIABLES
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