What about something like following:
while read line; do
case "x$line" in
x)
# empty line, do nothing
;;
x[ | x])
# you don't like brackets, do nothing too
;;
*)
# Everything else
set -- $line
# Now $1 == user, $3 == passwd (if any)
# do whatever you like with them
;;
esac
done < passwd.fake
Valery
--- Maxim Vexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi list, any bash gurus in the house ?
>
> I'm having the most annoying issue with bash, one
> related to space
> delimited variables.
> I'd like to get a list in the form of :
> <<<
> user1 password1
> user2 password2
> >>>
>
> Instead I'm getting:
> <<<
> user1
> password1
> user2
> password2
> >>>
>
> Here's an example:
>
> san-svn:/var/lib/svn# cat passwd.fake
> [users]
> user1 = password1
> user2 = password2
>
>
> san-svn:/var/lib/svn#
>
> I'd like to automate this the import from this file
> into something like
> san-svn:# htpasswd -b passwd.real user1 password1
>
> For this I've tried this voodoo:
>
> san-svn:/var/lib/svn# for pair in `awk
> '/^[^[].+[^\n]$/ {print $1,
> $3}' passwd.fake`; do htpasswd -b passwd.true
> "$pair"; done
>
> This does not work for the following reason:
>
> san-svn:/var/lib/svn# for pair in `awk
> '/^[^[].+[^\n]$/ {print $1,
> $3}' passwd.fake`; do echo "$pair"; done
> user1
> password1
> user2
> password2
>
>
> I've tried the following workarounds, that didn't
> worked:
>
> san-svn:/var/lib/svn# IFS='\n' for pair in `awk
> '/^[^[].+[^\n]$/
> {print $1, $3}' passwd`; do echo $pair; done
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
>
> san-svn:/var/lib/svn# IFS='!\n' for pair in `awk
> '/^[^[].+[^\n]$/
> {print $1, $3}' passwd`;! do echo $pair;! done
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
>
> san-svn:/var/lib/svn# for pair in `awk
> '/^[^[].+[^\n]$/ {print $1,
> $3}' passwd.fake`; do xargs "$pair" | echo; done
>
> san-svn:/var/lib/svn# for pair in `awk
> '/^[^[].+[^\n]$/ {print $1,
> $3}' passwd.fake`; do xargs "$pair" | echo -; done
> -
>
>
> I did found the following work around :
> <<<
> san-svn:/var/lib/svn# for pair in `awk
> '/^[^[].+[^\n]$/ {print
> $1"_"$3}' passwd.fake`; do echo "$pair" | tr _ ' '
> | cat; done
> user1 password1
> user2 password2
> >>>
>
> But it's broken because "_" can be a valid character
> in a password /
> usernmae name and besides - I'd to find a smarter
> solution.
>
> Any help / pokes to right direction would be highly
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Maxim.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Maxim Vexler
>
> "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ?
>
>
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