Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:37:56 +0100 martin f krafft wrote:
> Right. But I gave up on it when I fough 30 minutes this morning on
> reading in a file formatted like this:
>
> <user>\s+<filename>
I take it you mean that each line is composed of two words, separated by
one or more spaces, and terminated with a newline. Both words will, of
course, contain no spaces.
> while read user filename; do
> echo "$user : $filename"
> done < thefile
I cut and pasted this code of yours with *no* modifications, and it ran
perfectly under bash. No tinkering with IFS or anything else.
> this is supposed to work, but for whetever reason, it didn't this
> morning, and would put everything into $user and leave $filename
> blank. of course I checked $IFS. of course i did everything to debug.
> i couldn't find the solution. so i gave up.
I've had issues like this with shell scripting, and I always came out of
them a lot smarter and with a lot more respect for the shell.
Please mail me a copy of your 'thefile' (less any confidential info), I
would really like to debug this issue.
--
Carlos Sousa
http://vbc.dyndns.org/
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