Ignoring delimiters when passing to variable 1

[chris01010]

Morning,

i'm currently having trouble when passing a value into a variable from another file. I am currently using the below example:

function Command
{
for command in `cat proclst.tmp`
do

set $command

exec $command

done

}

The line I am trying to pass has a space delimiter (and is actually a command to be executed), unfortunately the variable only gets set with the first part of the line.

e.g.

the line acutally reads

/usr/local/function stop

but the variable is passed only

/usr/local/function


Any ideas how to get round this?

Cheers

Chris

 

[Chacalinc]

function Command
{
awk '{ system("set " $0); system("exec " $0) }' proclst.tmp
}

 

[ericbrunson]

If the commands are by line then you can do

while read line < proclst.tmp
do
 your stuff
done

 

[dchoulette]

The [tt]exec[/tt] command will never return. I'm not sure this is what you want ( since you put it in a loop ! ).

If you just want to execute all shell commands store in a file you could go reading line by line like ericbrunson's suggested:

function Command {
  while read line; do
    eval $line
  done < proclst.tmp
}

But why do you not simply 'source' them:

function Command {
  . proclst.tmp
}

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Denis