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Old 04-14-2011
awk (or other) script that assigns fields from a line to multiple variables
Hey all,

Unfortunately I have only basic knowledge of awk and/or scripting. If I have a file with lines that can look similar to this:

Code:
Name=line1   Arg1=valueA   Arg2=valueB   Arg3=valueC
Name=line2   Arg1=valueD
Name=line3   Arg1=valueE   Arg3=valueF
Name=line4   Arg2=valueG   Arg3=valueH

I would like to use a script that will parse out the values from each of these fields and assign them to a variable that I can use in the rest of my script.

I thought about using 'read' but the order/number of values in the each line is inconsistent. By the way the file can be changed in pretty much any way to make this easier if need be.
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Old 04-14-2011
Those lines could be fed into the shell raw and work. You can just read lines, and wrap an eval around them, which tells it to parse and evaluate that line as if it'd read it from the script itself..

Code:
while read LINE
do
        [ -z "$LINE" ] && break;        # Ignore blank lines
        Name="" Arg1="" Arg2="" Arg3="" # Clear out old variables
        eval "$LINE"                    # Assign variables
        echo $Name $Arg1 $Arg2 $Arg3    # Tada
done < cfgfile

Code:
$ ./rdconfig.sh
line1 valueA valueB valueC
line2 valueD
line3 valueE valueF
line4 valueG valueH
$

# 3  
Old 04-15-2011
Just make sure you know what your input file contains. If your file contains a line with any command, its gonna get executed!
# 4  
Old 04-15-2011
Wow that's so cool, thanks guys!
# 5  
Old 04-15-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by mirni
Just make sure you know what your input file contains. If your file contains a line with any command, its gonna get executed!
Good catchSmilie

How about:
Code:
sed 's/[^ ]*=//g' cfgfile

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