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# 1  
Old 07-04-2014
Removing last and first characters in a file
Code:
bash-3.00$ cat temp.txt
./a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/ces.war/WEB-INF/classes/reds/common/environment.properties
./a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/commonproperties/hi/HostIntegration.properties
./a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/commonproperties/hi/HostSocket.properties

I need a sheel script for the above file lines to be as below and it has to assign each one to one variable.
O/p:
Code:
/a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/ces.war/WEB-INF/classes/reds/common/
/a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/commonproperties/hi/
/a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/commonproperties/hi/
 
i=/a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/ces.war/WEB-INF/classes/reds/common/
j=/a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/commonproperties/hi/
k=/a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/commonproperties/hi/

could some one please let me know how to do it.
# 2  
Old 07-04-2014
This might be a bit tricky to get into separately named variables. A few questions:-
  • What have you tried so far?
  • What errors/output are you getting?
  • What OS and version are you using?
  • What tools do you want to use? It looks like bash is there, but are you comfortable with anything else?
Most importantly, What have you tried so far?


Robin
# 3  
Old 07-04-2014
Hi rbatte1,

Thanks for your reply.I tried to remove the last and first content in afile.But no luck.Below is the code which i tried so far.

Code:
cat temp.txt|awk -v skipstart=1 -v skipend=1 '{delim = "/"; for (i=skipstart+1;i<=NF-skipend;i++) {printf delim "%s", $i; delim = OFS}; printf "\n"}'

Comfortable with AIX machine.
# 4  
Old 07-04-2014
dirname should help Smilie
# 5  
Old 07-04-2014
Hi rbatte1,

My find command will give this output.Can we take it in variable and can split it.Is it possible to do it..
Code:
find . -name "HostIntegration.properties" -o -name "HostSocket.properties" -o -name "environment.properties" 2> /dev/null |grep $var1|grep $var2|grep -e hi -e
 reds >/home/cbadmin/temp.txt

# 6  
Old 07-04-2014
Almost anything is possible. I'm not sure what var1 & var2 are, but in theory this will work. Have you tried it? Did it give you some errors or just nothing?

I'm slightly confused by the change in the question. Back with the original post, I had prepared this answer already, so I'll share it anyway and see if that helps:-
Quote:
Rather than variables i, j & k, could you use an array? Something like:-
Code:
set -A myvar       # Define array
l1=0
while read fullline
do
   ((l1=$l1+1))
   nodot="${fullline#\.}"
   myvar[$l1]="${nodot%\/*}"
done<temp.txt

l2=0
until [ $l2 -ge $l1 ]
do
   ((l2=$l2+1))
   print "${myvar[$l2]}"
done

You should get the output lines trimmed and ready for use in the rest of your script as array elements of myvar indexed with a sequential number. Ignore the nodot variable, it's only temporary and has no further purpose.

The second loop in the script based on $l2 is just to display what you have extracted.
Where does that leave you? is the above any use?

Is your find command building the input that you want to process? We can work with that.


Apologies if I've missed the point.


Robin
# 7  
Old 07-05-2014
Try
Code:
A=105 # ="i"
while read INP; do INP=${INP%/*}; read $(printf "\x"$(printf "%X" $A)) <<< "${INP:1}"; ((A++)); done <file ; printf "%s\n" $i $j $k
/a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/ces.war/WEB-INF/classes/reds/common
/a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/commonproperties/hi
/a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/commonproperties/hi
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