Re: [hylafax-users] [hylafax-devel] Re: quick shell question for notify.sh mod

[Pascal DeMilly <list.hylafax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure I understand the context, but why not use source.

tmpfile=/tmp/xxx.$$
cat >$tmpfile
source $tmpfile
rm -f $tmpfile

HTH

Pascal

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 17:00, Frank @ Impact wrote:
> Sorry guys.
> 
> I think my email program sent this again.  It was stuck in there some
> how.
> Actually, here is how the problem solved.
> 
>         OIFS=$IFS;IFS=$'\012'  # set IFS to newline to parse the awk
> output
>         for assignvar in $(echo ${qFileVars} )
>         do
>                 eval ${assignvar}
>         done
>         IFS=$OIFS  # reset IFS back
> 
> Where all the q file values were echoed into qFileVars.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrice Fournier [mailto:pfournier@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 6:29 PM
> > To: Frank @ Impact
> > Cc: hylafax-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [hylafax-devel] Re: quick shell question for notify.sh
> mod
> > 
> > Quoting "Frank @ Impact" <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > > I an going to parse out a long list of variables from the qfile that
> > > will come in via a pipe
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:34:37 -0500, "Frank @ Impact"
> > > > <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Can't get the following to work.
> > > > >echo "var1=var1val" | while read LINE;  do eval $LINE  ; done ;
> > > > >echo $var1
> > > > >
> > > > >$var1 never gets defined in the current shell.
> > > > >
> > > > >What am I missing?
> > 
> > vars=$(echo "var1=var1val")
> > eval $vars
> > echo $var1
> > 
> > Can be tested for multiple variables and multiple words values with
> this:
> > vars=$(cat<<EOF
> > var1="var1value"
> > var2="var2value as multiple words"
> > var3="var3value"
> > EOF)
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Patrice Fournier
> 
> 
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