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?

An ugly method:

variable=($(grep searchtext file | cut -f 1,3,7,8))

This will save the values in an array $variable

You can then refer to the values from the various positions or use a simple for loop to put the values from the array into different variables. Then again, this assumes that the output for each field is a single word. The array elements will be separated by spaces.

Please provide details as to the data being processed.

Another way I can think or right now is to use multiple for loops.

There might be an easier method, but I don't have time right now. I have to run. These are they first two methods that popped into my head immediately.

Then again, skip all this and consider sed and awk.

HTH.

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