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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 4:42 pm, Joshua Pollak wrote: > Ok, I'm going crazy. I don't know how the script-kiddies deal with bash. Here's how. You can do the whole thing in bash without sed or awk. Here's my script testsetparam.sh vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv platform=$1 param=$2 lineprefix="$platform:$param" IFS='=' while read myvar myvalue ; do if [ "$myvar" == "$lineprefix" ] ; then echo "$myvalue" break fi done < infile ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Here's my testfile, which I think matches your specs vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv unix:PARM1=Parm1UNIX # win32:PARM1=Parm1WINDOWS # unix:PARM2=Parm2UNIXBad1 unix:PARM2=Parm2UNIX # unix:PARM2=Parm2UNIXBad2 win32:PARM2=Parm2WINDOWS unix:PARM3=Parm3UNIX win32:PARM3=Parm3WINDOWS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Here's my usage: vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv [david at uni /tmp]$ PARM2=OLDVALUE [david at uni /tmp]$ echo $PARM2 OLDVALUE [david at uni /tmp]$ PARM2=`./testsetparam.sh unix PARM2` [david at uni /tmp]$ echo $PARM2 Parm2UNIX ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus DK KD from the monkey cage." DDDD -H. L. Mencken
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