Shell Programming and Scripting

serial: 0623AN1208
hostname: server1
model: x4100
assetID: 1234

cat /tmp/CMDB | while read n
do

VAR=db_`echo $n | cut -d: -f1`
VALUE=`echo $n | cut -d: -f2`

eval `echo $VAR`=`echo $VALUE`

done

# echo it all out after the loop has finished

echo "DB serial is set to $db_serial"
echo "DB hostname is set to $db_hostname"
echo "DB model is set to $db_model"
echo "DB Asset ID is set to $db_assetID"

while read col1 col2
do
   case "$col1" in
		"serial:") db_serial=$col2;;
      'hostname:') db_hostname=$col2;;      
         "model:") db_model=$col2;;
       "assetID:") db_asssetID=$col2;;
       *);;
   esac                         
   echo  "db_serial=    $db_serial   "
   echo  "db_hostname=  $db_hostname "
   echo  "db_model=     $db_model    "
   echo  "db_asssetID=  $db_asssetID "
    
done < filename

bananas: woohoo

while read n
do

VAR=db_`echo $n | cut -d: -f1`
VALUE=`echo $n | cut -d: -f2`

eval `echo $VAR`=`echo $VALUE`

done < /tmp/CMDB

# echo it all out after the loop has finished

echo "DB serial is set to $db_serial"
echo "DB hostname is set to $db_hostname"
echo "DB model is set to $db_model"
echo "DB Asset ID is set to $db_assetID"

VALUE="${VALUE:1}"

awk -F:\  'NF{printf "db_%s=%s\n",$1,$2}' file

eval `awk -F':| +'  '{ print "db_" $1 "=" $NF }' file`