Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I am trying to write a shell script, but i encountered a problem I cant solve alone so I hope you guys can help me. The situation is:

I have a script file and a config file, in my config file I set some Variables:
for example:
destination=(xp, xq, xt)
username=testor
password=testian
file1=html/de/sa_logs.php
file2=html/fr/frappi

the amount of files can go between 1 and xy.

Now the part of the scriptfile i have problems with:
i=1
b=1
while [ $i -le ${#destination[*]} ]
do

echo i ist $i
i=`expr $i + 1`
while [ $b -le ${lineCount} ]

do
t=${file$b} <<-- Here it should get me html/de/sa_logs.php for the first run (b=1) and html/fr/frappi for the second run (b=2)
temp=$t
path=${sourcepath}${temp}
echo ${path}
b=`expr $b + 1`
done

b=1
done

What i need to do is combine file and $b so that the scrip still knows i am talking about the file1, file2,file3,filexy variables and not just some text. No Idea how I can do that. Sorry for my english it isnt my native language.

Hope you can help

You can use arrays in a loop to get the filenames, it's even better to put the filenames in a file.
To loop through an array you can do something like this:

Code:

file[1]=html/de/sa_logs.php
file[2]=html/fr/frappi

sourcepath="/home/"

for name in ${file[@]}
do
	path="$sourcepath""$name"
	echo $path
done

To read the names from a file "filenames":

Code:

sourcepath="/home/"

while read name
do
	path="$sourcepath""$name"
	echo $path
done < filenames

Regards

Thank you very much for your reply, it works now.

good day

if you have a file with variables

x=y
y=twenty
z="(1,2,3)"


you can just dot them in.

. varfile

and these variables will be instantiated to the values given, easy.

is that what you mean?