[Gllug] Parsing strings in a shell script

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:18:01PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> dylan at scooby(1):/media/server/music/test> ogginfo "David Bowie - Blue 
> Jean.ogg" | grep ARTIST
>         ARTIST=David Bowie

It's _almost_ possible to do:

$ eval `ogginfo 01-spandau_ballet__gold.ogg | grep artist`
$ echo $artist
Various

But this fails in the general case where the values contain spaces or
shell metacharacters:

$ eval `ogginfo 01-spandau_ballet__gold.ogg | grep '='`
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

I can't find out the bashness to make it ignore the spaces, brackets
and so on.  Setting IFS doesn't help ...

Rich.

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