Processing and reading properties files using shell script

[ringd]

Hello!

Has anyone come across / written any good code samples which they would like to share(!) for shell script reading a properties file or hash table? The shell array processing has limitations which appear to make this task look a little tricky.

In the meantime, I'll try a solution which is a psuedo-multi-dimensional array for "key/value" pairs. This is using 2 separate arrays; 1 for the key and 1 for the value. Both arrays will share a comman index.

Cheers,
Dave.

 

[mrn]

Not sure I fully understand yuor question but;

you can do the following

name[1]=mike
name[2]=dave

or

set -A name mike dave bob

this would set mike to name[0], dave to name[1], bob to name[3]

so all you have to do is read the properties file and assign each field.

Mike

Unix *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.

 

[mrn]

or try the following

cat /etc/passwd | while IFS=: read f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8
do
if [ $f3 !="0" ];then
echo $1 is not root
fi

Mike

Unix *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.

 

[cspilman]

@ringd,

Not sure I fully understand either. Can you post samples of what you have tried so far?


Regards,
Chuck