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Re: Text Processing Question



This could be done quite easily with Perl as previously mentioned, but from
a security standpoint do you think it's a good idea to store a database
username/password in an environment variable (at least this is what I'm
assuming your doing) ...

As far as I'm concerned that's a hacker's paradise.......

Leonard Leblanc
Webmaster / Intranet Administrator
www.emergeknowledge.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adahma" <adahma@io.com>
To: "Debian List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:17 PM
Subject: Text Processing Question


> I have about 400 little 2 line files to create, that I'm sure should
> be scriptable, but can't seem to figure out the right tools.
>
> The file format should be as follows:
>
> DBUSER=username/password
> export DBUSER
>
> I'd like to be able to run something like:
> scriptname username password
>
> and just have a file created and saved as the user name parameter.
>
> Is this a sed or awk kinda thing?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> jdk
>
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