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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Dynamic variable name in bash Post 302991522 by alex2005 on Sunday 12th of February 2017 06:45:44 PM
Old 02-12-2017
Hello,

Basically the above script supposed to be a short version of:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

     mkdir value1
     mkdir value2
     mkdir value3
     
     value1Value01=$(command 01 value1)
     value1Value02=$(command 02 value1)

     value2Value01=$(command 01 value2)
     value2Value02=$(command 02 value2)
     
     value3Value01=$(command 01 value3)
     value3Value02=$(command 02 value3)
     
     if [ ! -z value1Value01 ] ; then
          echo value1Value01 > file-value1Value01.err
     else
          echo "No errors in value1Value01"
     fi

     if [ ! -z value1Value02 ] ; then
          echo value1Value02 > file-value1Value02.err
     else
          echo "No errors in value1Value02"
     fi

     if [ ! -z value2Value01 ] ; then
          echo value2Value01 > file-value2Value01.err
     else
          echo "No errors in value2Value01"
     fi

     if [ ! -z value2Value02 ] ; then
          echo value2Value02 > file-value2Value02.err
     else
          echo "No errors in value2Value02"
     fi

     if [ ! -z value3Value01 ] ; then
          echo value3Value01 > file-value3Value01.err
     else
          echo "No errors in value3Value01"
     fi

     if [ ! -z value3Value02 ] ; then
          echo value3Value02 > file-value3Value02.err
     else
          echo "No errors in value3Value02"
     fi

done

I need to store the shell command results into a new variable and check if is empty,if not empty output to a file file-valueXValue0Y.err.

Code:
     
"$var2Value01=$(command 01)"
"$var2Value02=$(command 02)"

The output of the next shell commands
Code:
command 01

and
Code:
command 02

supposed to be assigned to the above variables.

Don Cragun and wisecracker are correct regarding the test commands and I have adjusted them in the detailed code.

Hopefully this time, I managed to give a better picture of what I'm trying to achieve.
 

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