by Jeff,
Your post was:
> I have a simple script that reads in two files that contain a list of variables
> and a list of values to assign to those variables. The script sorts them just
> fine. But where I run into a problem is in assigning the values to the
> variables. Here is the script
>
> #!/bin/sh
> OLD_PARAM=`cat $HOME/.genpad.prm | cut -d " " -f 3`
> ALL_VARS=`cat $HOME/.genpad.var | cut -d " " -f 2`
> COUNTA=1
> COUNTB=1
> for SET in `echo $ALL_VARS`
> do
> echo $COUNTA
> `echo $ALL_VARS | cut -d " " -f $COUNTA`=`echo $OLD_PARAM | cut -d "
> COUNTA=`expr $COUNTA + 1`
> COUNTB=`expr $COUNTB + 1`
> done
>
> I get the error "./genpad: G9_OBD2_IP=YES: not found"
> where the G9 is my variable and YES is the value I want assigned
> any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jeff S.
Try this interactively:
sh to start a Bourne shell
name=PIGLET set a variable name
$name=EXPERIMENT fails, right ?
exit
You can execute shell variable values ( nextcommand=ls ) but
not set them as variables.
Since in this case you were reading them from a file why not
put VAR1=VAL1 etc on lines in one file and then execute that ?
For the Bourne shell the command is "."
. set_my_vars_file
or in the C-shell it is "source".
And nawk has associative arrays that I use at times like this.
Future shell (as opposed to C) questions to comp.unix shell please.
Hope this helps.