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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting User Input Automation without Spawn Post 302641187 by bakunin on Tuesday 15th of May 2012 07:10:51 PM
Old 05-15-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by foghsho
Code:
STEAMEXE=steamcmd ./steam.sh +runscript csgo_ds.txt
sleep 60

this works, however it does not allow for delays inbetween the command, as this is how SteamCMD does their own scripting.
Actually i don't think this will run at all. The line "STEAMEXE=..." just defines a variable named "STEAMEXE" with the content of the first word behind the equal sign. Then the script waits for 60 seconds.

If this is the command you want to run do like:

Code:
STEAMEXE="steamcmd ./steam.sh +runscript csgo_ds.txt"   # load the variable with the WHOLE string

$STEAMEXE                                               # execute the variables content
sleep 60                                                # then wait 60 seconds

If "steamcmd" is another variable you will have to prepend "$" in front to assign "$STEAMEXE" with its content and something added. See the following example, which shows the mechanism:

Code:
a="xxx"                      # assign a variable
echo $a                      # print this variable
b="$a yyy"                   # create a new variable which contains the first one
echo $b                      # print the new variable

Furthermore: Unix is case-sensitive for the most part. Variables "A" and "a" are distinct!

I hope this helps.

bakunin
I hope this helps.
 

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variable

variable(n)						       Tcl Built-In Commands						       variable(n)

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NAME

       variable - create and initialize a namespace variable

SYNOPSIS

       variable ?name value...? name ?value?
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DESCRIPTION

       This  command  is  normally used within a namespace eval command to create one or more variables within a namespace.  Each variable name is
       initialized with value.	The value for the last variable is optional.

       If a variable name does not exist, it is created.  In this case, if value is specified, it is assigned to the newly created  variable.	If
       no  value  is  specified,  the new variable is left undefined.  If the variable already exists, it is set to value if value is specified or
       left unchanged if no value is given.  Normally, name is unqualified (does not include the names of  any	containing  namespaces),  and  the
       variable  is  created in the current namespace.	If name includes any namespace qualifiers, the variable is created in the specified names-
       pace.  If the variable is not defined, it will be visible to the namespace which command, but not to the info exists command.

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       therefore  these  variables are listed by info locals.)	In this way the variable command resembles the global command, although the global
       command only links to variables in the global namespace.  If any values are given, they are used to modify the  values  of  the	associated
       namespace variables.  If a namespace variable does not exist, it is created and optionally initialized.

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       global(n), namespace(n), upvar(n)

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