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Old 06-13-2014
Moving cat values to a variable
I have a file created as ABC!DEF@2014.txt

My if condition is based on 2014 so I need to move it to variable.

So while I can do this on console screen -
Code:
 ls ABC* -l > test.txt
cat test.txt | cut -f 2 -d "@" | cut -f 1 -d "."

to get the value - 2014
I am a bit at loss how to achieve this in a bash script.
# 2  
Old 06-13-2014
Code:
VAR=$(cat test.txt | cut -f 2 -d "@" | cut -f 1 -d ".")

to check:
Code:
 echo $VAR

# 3  
Old 06-13-2014
What happens if ABC* matches more than one file..
# 4  
Old 06-13-2014
A tighter search and allowing for multiple files matching ABC*@*.txt and avoiding a UUOC in ksh:-
Code:
for file in ABC*@*.txt
do
   tfile="${file%.txt}"
   tfile="${tfile#*@}"

   echo "I've found a match for $tfile in $file"
done


Does that help, or just confuse?

Robin
Last edited by rbatte1; 06-13-2014 at 08:28 AM.. Reason: Added link for UUOC
# 5  
Old 06-13-2014
Longhand using CygWin default bash terminal...
Code:
AMIGA:~> cd /tmp
AMIGA:/tmp> > 'ABC!DEF@2014.txt'
AMIGA:/tmp> var=`ls 'ABC!DEF@2014.txt'`
AMIGA:/tmp> echo "${var:$((${#var}-8)):4}"
2014
AMIGA:/tmp> _

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