On Wednesday 13 December 2006 21:22, Pascal Nunes wrote: > hi, > > I am writing a shell script where I retrive values from a text file using > cut. I want to save these into variables. > > The script is something like this... > > grep searchtext file | cut -f 1,3,7,8 > > I want to save the values returned by cut into 4 different variables. > > Can anyone suggest a method to save these values into multiple variables? > > Is there any better method to do this?
Now that I'm back home, here's a good method, without using multiple for
loops:
#!/bin/bash
num=1
for i in $(grep Hubert list | cut -f 1,3,7,8); do
eval var$((num++))=$i
done
The values will be stored in variables $var1 $var2 $var3 and $var4.
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