Shell Programming and Scripting

 LIST="A:B C:D E:F"
for VAR in `print $LIST`
do
NAME=`print $VAR | cut -d ":" -f1`
RETURN_VALUE1=`some action`
echo $RETURN_VALUE1
done

do
NAME=`echo $VAR | cut -d ":" -f1`
OLDLIST=$OLDLIST" "$VAR
RETURN_VALUE1=`some action`
......

SERVERLIST="1:Server_1a 1:Server_1b 2:Server_2a 2:Server_2b 3:Server_3a 3:Server_3b 4:Server_4a 4:Server_4b"
RETURN_VALUE1=0


for VAR in `print $SERVERLIST`
do
SERVERNAME=`print $VAR | cut -d ":" -f1`
SERVER_NAME=`print $VAR | cut -d ":" -f2`

print "<br>BOUNCING $SERVER_NAME on $SERVERNAME<br>"
print "*******************************************<br><br>"

RETURN_VALUE1=`cmd $SERVERNAME ".././ServerBounce.ksh $SERVER_NAME"`
echo $RETURN_VALUE1
done

if [ $RETURN_VALUE1 -eq 0 ] ; then
        print "\nThe $SERVER_NAME was bounced successfully\n"
elif [ $RETURN_VALUE1 -eq 1 ] ; then
        print "\nThe $SERVER_NAME couldn't be stopped\n"
elif [ $RETURN_VALUE1 -eq 2 ] ; then
        print "\nThe $SERVER_NAME couldn't be started\n"
else
        print "\nThe $SERVER_NAME was not bounced\n"
fi
done

for VAR in `print $SERVERLIST`

OLDIFS="$IFS" # Save the default value of the special IFS variable for later.  It controls splitting.

SERVERLIST="1:Server_1a 1:Server_1b 2:Server_2a 2:Server_2b 3:Server_3a 3:Server_3b 4:Server_4a 4:Server_4b"

IFS=": " # Split on space, or :
        set -- $SERVERLIST # $1=1, $2=Server_1a, $3=1, $4=Server_1b, etc.
IFS="$OLDIFS" # Set splitting back to normal

VAR=""

while [ "$#" -gt 0 ] # Loop until $1, $2, ... are empty.  We remove two arguments per loop.
do
        # Append new result to VAR.  If VAR was "1" before, it'll be "1 2", etc.
        VAR="$VAR $(cmd $1 ".././ServerBounce.ksh $2")"
        shift ; shift # Get rid of $1, $2, and shift down so the list starts at $1 again.
done

# $1 will be the result from the first process, $2 is the result from the second, etc.
set -- $VAR
echo "$# results in list"
echo "First is $1"
echo "Second is $2"
...