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# 1  
Old 02-24-2014
Read record from the text file contain multiple separated values & assign those values to variables
I have a file containing multiple values, some of them are pipe separated which are to be read as separate values and some of them are single value all are these need to store in variables.
I need to read this file which is an input to my script

Config.txt
Code:
file name, first path, second path(pipe separated)
file name, first path, second path(pipe separated)
username
ip
path
path
:
:

Code:
USER_NAME|home/files/proc/out/user_name|home/files/done/in/user_name/tmp/
USER_lang|home/files/proc/out/user_lang/home/files/done/in/user_name/tmp/
sys_adm
11.100.120.110

Now I want to read all these values define in file , but while matching in script, when we get lines having “file name, first path, second path” then comparison must be done with ‘file name' and actual file name and its neighbouring values(first path, second path) need to be store in variable else for other values(username ,ip,...) skip the matching and only store them in variable for further used.
Please suggest me how to implement this.....
# 2  
Old 02-24-2014
What have you tried so far?
# 3  
Old 02-24-2014
Hi chacko193,

Currently I have this….
Code:
            flag=0
                    while IFS='|' read -r line f_path p_path; do
               set -f          # disable globbing
#               echo $line
                   if [[ $CHK_FILE =~ "${line}*" ]] ;# True if file name is equal to line* (literal matching).
                                            then
                                                    flag=1
                                                    break
                                                    else
                                                    flag=0
                                                    fi
                    done < config .txt
                    if [ $flag = 1 ]
                                    then
do this
                                    else
                                            do this
                    fi

In this case I able to make file name comparison but can’t stop to avoid when line contain username ,ip,… also I am planning to put all vales in variable for future understanding

Code:
 fle1=”USER_NAME|home/files/proc/out/user_name|home/files/done/in/user_name/tmp/”
]file2=”USER_lang|home/files/proc/out/user_lang/home/files/done/in/user_name/tmp/”
unmae=”sys_adm”
ip=”11.100.120.110”

Or any improved suggestion…?
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# 4  
Old 02-24-2014
You may want to read every single line and after that use a case statement (e.g. on the first variable read) to check what type of line you're dealing with.
# 5  
Old 02-24-2014
Perhaps something like this will get you started:

Code:
T=0
while IFS='|' read -r line f_path p_path
do
    if [ -n "$f_path" ]
    then
       file_name[${#file_name[@]}]=$line
       first_path[${#first_path[@]}]=$f_path
       second_path[${#second_path[@]}]=$p_path
       continue
    fi
    let T=T+1
    case $T in
       1) username=$line ;;
       2) ip=$line ;;
       *) path=$line ;;
    esac
done < config.txt

i=1
while [ $i -le ${#file_name[@]} ]
do
    echo "file$i=\"${file_name[i-1]}|${first_path[i-1]}|${second_path[i-1]}\""
    let i=i+1
done
echo unmae=\"$username\"
echo ip=\"$ip\"

Here we put the filename and 1st and 2nd paths into 3 arrays. username ip and other variables are assigned based on the line number following the filename data.

I've included a block of code to fetch back and print the input to show how you would access it within your script.
This User Gave Thanks to Chubler_XL For This Post:
ketanraut
# 6  
Old 02-27-2014
Thank you so much ....it is exactly what i am looking for....
# 7  
Old 03-06-2014
hi chubler,

I am not god with arrays so could you please explain me how
Code:
${#file_name[@]}]

works??

Regards,
Ketanr
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