[Wolves] Arrays within Bash

[Re-LoaD]

you then do what you like with the array :-

for heh in "${stuffarray[@]}"
do
echo "---"
echo $heh
done

:-)

Re-LoaD



On 28/07/2011 12:51, Re-LoaD wrote:
> not sure what you mean but will this help :---
>
> Cheers
> Reload
> ----
> reload at orac:~$ cat myfile.txt
> BP1_FS1='bp1_usr /usr/BP1'
> BP1_FS2='bp1_mnt /mnt/BP1'
> BP1_FS3='bp1_ora /oracle/BP1'
> BP1_FS4='bp1_data /oracle/BP1/data'
> BPA
> HELLO
> TEST
> BLAH
>
> reload at orac:~$ cat myscript.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> stuffarray=(` cat myfile.txt | awk '$0~"BP1_FS" {print $0}'` )
>
> echo ${stuffarray[@]}
>
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> reload at orac:~$ ./myscript.sh
> BP1_FS1='bp1_usr /usr/BP1' BP1_FS2='bp1_mnt /mnt/BP1' BP1_FS3='bp1_ora
> /oracle/BP1' BP1_FS4='bp1_data /oracle/BP1/data'
> reload at orac:~$
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> On 28/07/2011 11:52, Simon Burke wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> The list has been quiet this recently so I thought I'd put forward
>> this conundrum.
>> I have a file that is formatted in a similar fashion to:
>>
>> BP1_FS1='bp1_usr /usr/BP1'
>> BP1_FS2='bp1_mnt /mnt/BP1'
>> BP1_FS3='bp1_ora /oracle/BP1'
>> BP1_FS4='bp1_data /oracle/BP1/data'
>>
>> The problem is that I need to loop through all the items that start
>> with BP1_FS in another script. I have tried to pull them out into an
>> array so I can loop through them, but the problem I am having is that
>> the the records in the array are being split into "'bp1_usr"
>> "/usr/BP1" and so forth.
>>
>> It seems to be splitting the records at any occurance of a space, but
>> I need that space left in, and for everything in the quote marks to be
>> a separate records.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest either a better way of doing this, or how I can get
>> around my array problem. Please note that although I'd like to just
>> use python, it has to be a bash script.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon.
>>
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