On 12/14/06, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 14 December 2006 14:08, Philip Tellis wrote: > Sometime on Dec 13, PN cobbled together some glyphs to say: > > 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. > > This works: > > read a b c d <<EOF > $( grep searchtext file | cut -f 1,3,7,8 ) > EOF
Thanks! read a b c d <<<$(grep Hubert /home/mrugesh/text/list | cut -f 1,3,5,7) This method worked really well. Saved a lot of time. I had to use awk though, cause, some variable were blank and read used would not assign blank value to a variable. It would assign the value of the variblble after that... and leave a blank at the end. - pascal. --
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