I'm trying to write a bash script which makes an inquiry to an http service that replies with a series of keyword=value plain text data, one pair per line. I want to extract only a few of the lines, and make variables of them available to rest of my bash script. I have this so far, and it works fine in terms of selecting the correct data items... but how can I get them into $1 $2, or other symbolic names? wget -O - http://.../cgi-bin/dirent?ntid=$MYVAR \ | egrep '^(LastName)|(FirstName)|(Email)=' \ | sort \ | sed s/.*=// The idea of sorting was because I was anticipating putting the results in an array, then I'd know array[0] is email... etc I also tried using sed to convert those lines into assignment statements and piping that to eval... nope This sort of thing must be pretty common, but I'm just missing something fundamental. I tried setting variable like this: myarray=$( <all that stuff above> ) but that just created a variable with all the item including their \n characters... I'm ALMOST there... I just have to add some sed stuff to escape quotes, and wrap quotes so I can use the pieces in other commands. But what's giving me trouble is how to get the individual parts into individual vars, or array elements. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
