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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading arguments for a shell script from file Post 302589328 by goddevil on Wednesday 11th of January 2012 10:29:25 AM
Old 01-11-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
Code:
Host="servername"
Port="13122"
site="sitename"
Javahome="/bin/java"
platform="pb"
filelist="x.guiclient.download"
boot="bot.jar"

If you hold your parameter file in correct unix Shell format (no spaces either side of the equals sign and variables in quotes) you can set all the variables with.

Code:
. ./parameter_file_name

That is dot-space-dot-slash-filename.
Cheers Methyl.

I understand that i will be able to set the variables by using . ./parameter_file_name

But i will also need some of the variables further down in the script. For example:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
Host=servername
Port=13122
site=sitename
Javahome=/bin/java
policy=jv.policy
platform=pb
filelist=x.guiclient.download
boot=bot.jar
.
.
.
java -cp $boot -Djava.security.policy=$policy-codebase=http://$Host:$Port/$Filelist   /Sitename:$Site /Platform_name:$platform

I am not great with awk / sed so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have other requirements to read from a file as well(i am trying to get rid of all hardcoded data) and this will help me out greatly with respect to others as well. Thanks
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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