Programming :: Reading A Bash Variable In Bash Scripting ?

Nov 26, 2008

I have a config file that contains:

my.config:

Code:

Now in my bash script, I want to get the output /home/user instead of $HOME once read. So far, I have managed to get the $HOME variable but I can't get it to echo the variable. All I get is the output $HOME.

Here is my parse_cmd script:

Code:

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At my wit's end I can't find anything that I understand well enough to use. This is for a Unix class, we are working with shell scripting. File1 has 5 in it and File2 has 100 in it.The teacher wants us to read the values then do the math. This is what I have so far:#!/bin/bashvar1='cat File1'var2='cat File2'var3=`echo "scale=4; $var1 / $var2" | bc`echo The final result is: $var3

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Code:

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For example:

Code:

Changing $files to "$files" eliminate these problems but causes that whole content of variable is treated as one string (one execution of loop).

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The only snag I have left is the octal limit when it gets to 08 and 09. I've seen examples using perl and awk, but this script uses a number of nested for loops and if statements that I don't want to have to rewrite in a different syntax. I found that I can use num=10#08 to set that variable to a base 10 instead of a base 8, but then I lose the leading 0 again when it passes the number to the next filename variable.

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Code:
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declare -a arr1
arr1=( $(/some/command) )

Supposing it will eventually (after executing the command) have element values as -

arr1[0]=1234
arr1[1]=5678
arr1[2]=7890

Now, I need to declare another set of arrays, one for each of the element values above - e.g.

declare -a arr1_1234
declare -a arr1_5678
declare -a arr1_7890

And I also need to populate elements of each of above 3 arrays with output of another command in a loop. So, these arrays will hold values something like -

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arr1_5678[0]="jkl"
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I can get all the IP's into 1 file "output.txt", but what I am really looking for is some type of way to create a text file, for each IP it finds labeled xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.txt and also put that ip address into that file..

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of course the extension is the date the file was created.

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Also I'm using the [[ =~ ]] regex syntax which seems to be available only in newer bash versions, should it be a big issue? My bash version: GNU bash, version 4.1.7(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

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Code:
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for inFiles in $files
do
echo $inFiles

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Code:

FILENAME=$1
while read line
do
echo $line
done < $FILENAME

it worked and showed me the Line witch was written in my file but now my problem is how am gonna use that line as a path i mean for example if am gonna execute a linux command on that file like dpkg -i /path/to/the/file how am gonna export it from The $Line variable and use it after the command.

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Code:

#!/bin/bash
## Script Information
## Script Author: Berwick East

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file.a 2,3,4,5
file.b
3 5

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for i in $var1
do
for k in $var2
do

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I've already formatted the entries in clean.txt to handle spaces correctly, using sed replacement.

Example from the clean.txt file:

Code:
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