cga2000 wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:33:12PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: <snip>3. in the parent script, where you use your script, change it to be: HTTP_proxy=$(getproxyip).. you can take it one tiny step further by using an array: . child: cz=($c0 $c1 $c2) /* .. $c4 .. etc. */ echo "${cz[@]}" . parent: cz=($(child)) /* note added outer parentheses .. */ $p0="${cz[0]}" $p1="${cz[1]}" $p2="${cz[1]}" .. I think you need a fairly recent version of bash to do this .. Dunno about other shells. Thanks, cga
Actually, unless you need an array, this is overkill, if the objective is to get a series of single values in a series of simple variables (p0 ... p?).
Assuming these assignments: x=a y=b z=c p=d
echo "${cz[@]}" # where cz is (a b c d), from cz=($x $y $z $p)
and
echo $x $y $z $p
generate the same results.
And you can read data into a series of variables using the 'read' built
in command:
read x y z pThe only issue being, if you don't have total control on the output of the command being read, and it generates more than 4 fields, the 4th to last field all get stuffed into p, so in that case you'd want to do:
read x y z p rest So: $ echo a b c d | read x y z p $ echo $x $y $z $p a b c dAnd read has been part of Bourne shells for ages, so there's less of a backward compatibility problem.
Bob
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