Split Text Apart

[Trancemission]

I am attempting to write a script that will take a variable that is passed to it and then execute another program with that variable but only after I have managed to 'chop' the text up:

SOME_NAME(#,#) will be the variable that is passed to the script. The #'s will be different numbers but it will always be in the above format

I need it then to execute:

path/to/myprog SOME_NAME

Cheers

Marcus

 

[grega]

You could do something like this ...

If the value of $1 in your script is SOME_NAME(1,2) you could do;

VAR1=`echo $1 | cut -d"(" -f1`
/path/to/myprog $VAR1

Greg.

 

[Trancemission]

Thats great, but I am still getting a couple of problems. My Script also uses AWK and my variables are getting messed up. Here is my script:

#! /usr/bin/sh
$msg=$2
$delay=$3
compname=`echo $1 | cut -d"(" -f1`
grep $compname customers | awk '{print $2}' > number
/testing/alarmpt $compname `cat number` "$msg" "$delay"

The problem is when I try to assign the values passed to the script to the variables $msg and $delay. If I don't do this, should awk return more that 1 result (it shouldn't but may do due to data integrity being up the spout it may do), awk will assign new values to $2 and $3 so I want to capture them into new variables before AWK excutes.

Your help is appreciated by this UNIX scripting novice who has been placed in the deep end

Cheers

 

[grega]

At a first glance, lines 2 & 3 should be changed ...

#! /usr/bin/sh
msg=$2
delay=$3
compname=`echo $1 | cut -d"(" -f1`
grep $compname customers | awk '{print $2}' > number
/testing/alarmpt $compname `cat number` "$msg" "$delay"

You don't need to use the $ when assigning a value to a variable, only when you want to get the value. As you see it's correctly done the the compname assignment.

Greg.