Shell Programming and Scripting

The script:

Code:

for i in $(awk '/\".*\"/' list.txt)
do
   echo $i
done

iist.txt:

Code:

"Willie"
"Willie Willie"
"Willie Willie Wee"
"Willie Willie Wee Wee"

The results:

Code:

"Willie"
"Willie
Willie"
"Willie
Willie
Wee"
"Willie
Willie
Wee
Wee"

I'm needing this though:

Code:

Willie
Willie Willie
Willie Willie Wee
Willie Willie Wee Wee

hello try this,

Code:

gaurav@localhost:~$ echo '"Willie"
"Willie Willie"
"Willie Willie Wee"
"Willie Willie Wee Wee"' | perl -wln -e 'print $1 if /"(.*)"/'
Willie
Willie Willie
Willie Willie Wee
Willie Willie Wee Wee
gaurav@localhost:~$

Regards,
Gaurav.

What about:

Code:

sed 's/"//g' list.txt

Code:

tr -d '"' < file

It seems that the suggestions above work if I run them from a terminal but in my script I get something different.

As an example:

tr -d '"' < list.txt

gets me what I am looking for.

Willie
Willie Willie
Willie Willie Wee
Willie Willie Wee Wee

However:

for i in $(tr -d '"' < list.txt)
do
echo $i
done

gets me:

Willie
Willie
Willie
Willie
Willie
Wee
Willie
Willie
Wee
Wee

So, I guess from what I am getting I probably have something else incorrect in my script and I am probably instructing incorrectly for what I am wanting.

The eventual intent of this script is to loop through the chain of names in the list and alter files elsewhere that are applicable to each name . That's all figured out but I just cannot extract the names correctly to correctly alter those files elsewhere.

Code:

OLD_IFS=$IFS
IFS=""
for i in $(tr -d '"' < file)
do
echo $i
done
IFS=$OLD_IFS

Code:

while read line
do 
  eval echo "$line"
done < list.txt