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# 1  
Old 04-30-2018
Reading properties from file and setting variable values
I want to read properties from a file and print evaluated values of each key.
I am using AIX6.1.


Code:
 
 myfile.props
protocol=http
siteA.host=siteAhostname
pageA=pageNameA
siteAURL1=${protocol}:/${siteA.host}/pagea/blabla?v1=32
siteAURL2=${protocol}:/${siteA.host}/${pageA}/blabla?v1=32
test.enc=AFSAF!$fsafasf+==

Code:
 
 evalnprint.sh
#!/bin/bash
. ./myfile.props

Code:
./evalnprint.sh
./abc.props: line 2: siteA.host=siteAhostname: command not found
./abc.props: line 4: ${protocol}:/${siteA.host}/pagea/blabla?v1=32: bad substitution
./abc.props: line 5: ${protocol}:/${siteA.host}/${pageA}/blabla?v1=32: bad substitution
./abc.props: line 6: test.enc=AFSAF!+==: command not found

Expected output
Code:
http
siteAhostname
pageNameA
http://siteAhostname/pagea/blabla?v1=32
http://siteAhostname/pageNameA/blabla?v1=32
AFSAF!$fsafasf+==

# 2  
Old 04-30-2018
change all occurrences of siteA.host to siteA_host
change all occurrences of test.enc to test_enc

In other words, do not use "." as part of a variable name.
# 3  
Old 04-30-2018
props are defined for huge real world app, I can't change existing format.
If its just keyName I would have replaced '.' with '_' and back. values have all kinds of special characters like '='
Last edited by kchinnam; 04-30-2018 at 10:56 PM.. Reason: better reason
# 4  
Old 04-30-2018
But you may be able to filter it into something you can use.
# 5  
Old 04-30-2018
You could write a load-prop function that replaces all non-alphanumeric characters in the variable names with underscore like this:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
function load-prop {
 . <(
  awk '
    FNR==NR {
       p=index($0, "=")
       if (!p) next
       VAR=substr($0,1,p-1)
       NEW=VAR
       while (match(NEW, "[^_A-Za-z0-9]"))
          NEW=substr(NEW, 0, RSTART - 1) "_" substr(NEW, RSTART + 1)
       if(NEW != VAR) repl[VAR]=NEW
       next
    }
    {
       for(rep in repl)
          gsub(rep, repl[rep], $0)
    }
    1
' $1 $1)
}

load-prop ./myfile.props

echo "SITEAURL2 is $siteAURL2"
echo "test.enc is $test_enc"

Output:
Code:
SITEAURL2 is http:/siteAhostname/pageNameA/blabla?v1=32
test.enc is AFSAF!+==


Edit:

Just noticed that test.enc has had the string $fsafasf incorrectly expanded by the shell.
Single quotes could avoid this issue, easy if you can update your prop file(s).

The awk script could adjust for this automatically, but it needs to identify when this is needed

If all variables use the ${} format then $ characters without a following { could be used to trigger the quoting eg:
Code:
test_enc='AFSAF!$fsafasf+=='

You may also have issues with spaces within the variable values.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 04-30-2018 at 11:58 PM.. Reason: Fix ICODE tags.
These 2 Users Gave Thanks to Chubler_XL For This Post:
kchinnam rbatte1
# 6  
Old 05-01-2018
Thanks XL. I do not see single quotes in properties, I will try to wrap values in single quotes first, then use your script to expand variable substitution. Thanks for taking time to look into it.
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