Re: [ILUG-BOM] Saving multiple values returned by cut command into different variables

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 21:22, Pascal Nunes wrote:

hi,

I am writing a shell script where I retrive values from a text file using cut. I want to save these into variables.

The script is something like this...

grep searchtext file | cut -f 1,3,7,8

I want to save the values returned by cut into 4 different variables.

Can anyone suggest a method to save these values into multiple variables?

Is there any better method to do this?

Now that I'm back home, here's a good method, without using multiple for loops:

#!/bin/bash num=1 for i in $(grep Hubert list | cut -f 1,3,7,8); do eval var$((num++))=$i done

The values will be stored in variables $var1 $var2 $var3 and $var4.