[wellylug] simple (bash) scripting question

[Mark Signal]

No I'm sorry Sam that's far to simple....

If I'd thought of it - it would be fine (I was stuck in the "declare your
variables mental loop")

actually it should work perfectly - thanks for the quick response.

cheers

Mark



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From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz]On Behalf Of Sam Cannell
Sent: Saturday, 31 July 2004 5:07 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] simple (bash) scripting question


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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