[wellylug] simple (bash) scripting question

Sam Cannell sam at plaz.net.nz
Sat Jul 31 17:07:09 NZST 2004


On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 17:04, Mark Signal wrote:

> VARIABLE=`/path/cat common text file'
> 
> rsync $VARIABLE source destination etc etc
> 
> any ideas on how I could do this?

If you're not wanting to do any kind of validation on the paramaters
contained in the file, then something like this would suffice:

rsync `cat /path/to/configfile` <source> <destination>

Note that they're backticks (``) around the cat command, not apostrophes
('')

Hope this helps

Sam
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Sam Cannell <sam at plaz.net.nz>
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