Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I am new to bash scripting. I need your help to removing spaces from a string and assign them to different variables.

Iwant to call script with one command line argument which is file name which containes different attributes their type and different values eg

fdxE1ConfigAdminStatus int 1 2
fdxE1LineType int 1 2 3
.
.
.

Now I want bash script which will take one line every time from this file then in that line it will go till end and puts value in different attributes eg

attr1 = fdxE1ConfigAdminStatus
attr2 = int
attr3 = 1 and 2 [possibly an array]

then it goes to second line and do the same and so on

I started writing script with follwing lines
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
echo "$0 <attr filename >";
exit;
fi
while read line; do
echo $line;
done

First traversal of loop containes fdxE1ConfigAdminStatus int 1 2
Now I want to remove spaces after fdxE1ConfigAdminStatus, int, 1 and 2 and put them in different attributes eg attr1, attr2 and attr3 and so on.

Could you please help to me to find out a solution.

Thanks in advance

Hi
If your fields are separated by "spaces" then the simplest way for you to try is

cat filename | while read var1 var2 var3 var4
do
echo "This is field1: $var1
echo "This is field2: $var2
echo "This is field3: $var3
echo "This is field4: $var4
done

Once you have broken up the fields into different variables (var1 var2 var3 etc) yoiu can play around with them as you please....