You didn't say what shell you are using, but in bash you can use indirect variable referencing like this:
P.S. Back to your original example, if your shell does not support the above, you can do it using eval as long as you are sure of what you are eval'ing as eval can be dangerous.
eval forces the shell to evaluate the line twice. First (in this example), it does variable expansion so
"eval LISTFLES=\$$LFILE" is replaced with "LISTFILES=$DIR", THEN the shell executes the line.
i have a file in this format
curyymm PRVYYMM CDDMmmYY bddMmmyy eddMmmyy
--------- ------- ------------ ---------- -----------
0906 0905 09Jun09 01Jun09 30Jun09
----------- --------- ------------ ------------ -----------
i need to read the... (5 Replies)
I have a csv file with the values seperated by commas.I want to extract these values one by one and assign to a variable using shell script.Any ideas or code? (11 Replies)
Hi Masters,
I want to assign the values of one variable to another variable.
Here the varaible name 'var' is dynamic. I know the values of V_2 and U_3, but
If the i/p of TYPE is 'U' and the NO is 3, then I want to assign the values of
U_3 to var.
How we can achieve it?
TYPE="U"... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a text file with multiple lines, each having data in the below format
<DOB>,<ADDRESS>
I have to write a script which reads each line in the text file in loop, assign the values to these variables and do some further processing in it.
Using the following code prints the... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a text file with multiple lines, each having data in the below format <DOB>,<ADDRESS>
I have to write a script which reads each line in the text file in loop, assign the values to these variables and do some further processing in it.
Using the following code prints the values... (12 Replies)
I have a log file that has certain fields that I want to evaluate, and depending on the value in those fields, I want to put the value of a different field in that line in a particular variable that I'll use later on down the log file. Sort of like setting a switch to change what I do with a bunch... (5 Replies)
I have a file containing multiple values, some of them are pipe separated which are to be read as separate values and some of them are single value all are these need to store in variables.
I need to read this file which is an input to my script
Config.txt
file name, first path, second... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I wrote a database command that queries our application and outputs a whole bunch of values to a text file. I need to assign the output to two values.
Here is a sample of the output:
valueOne, checkOne
valueTwo, checkTwo
valueThree, checkThree
I would like... (9 Replies)
Hello,
Could anyone please help me with Assigning a value to variable and then updating the value in the original file
IFS='|'
while read -r Serial_ID JOB_NAME STATUS
do
if
then
echo "Perform Fuctions"
???Assign STATUS to COMPLETED and Update File???
done <File (7 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have a script which assign awk output to shell variable. current it uses two awk command to assign value to two variables. I want to use one command to assign two values to two variables. I tried the code, but it does't work. kindly provide your suggestion.
current code... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: green_k
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
exec
exec(1) User Commands exec(1)NAME
exec, eval, source - shell built-in functions to execute other commands
SYNOPSIS
sh
exec [argument...]
eval [argument...]
csh
exec command
eval argument...
source [-h] name
ksh
*exec [arg...]
*eval [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The exec command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new process. Input/output arguments may
appear and, if no other arguments are given, cause the shell input/output to be modified.
The arguments to the eval built-in are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
csh
exec executes command in place of the current shell, which terminates.
eval reads its arguments as input to the shell and executes the resulting command(s). This is usually used to execute commands generated as
the result of command or variable substitution.
source reads commands from name. source commands may be nested, but if they are nested too deeply the shell may run out of file descrip-
tors. An error in a sourced file at any level terminates all nested source commands.
-h Place commands from the file name on the history list without executing them.
ksh
With the exec built-in, if arg is given, the command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new
process. Input/output arguments may appear and affect the current process. If no arguments are given the effect of this command is to mod-
ify file descriptors as prescribed by the input/output redirection list. In this case, any file descriptor numbers greater than 2 that are
opened with this mechanism are closed when invoking another program.
The arguments to eval are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
EXIT STATUS
For ksh:
If command is not found, the exit status is 127. If command is found, but is not an executable utility, the exit status is 126. If a redi-
rection error occurs, the shell exits with a value in the range 1-125. Otherwise, exec returns a zero exit status.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 17 Jul 2002 exec(1)