For anything beyond simple tests and ifs I default to Perl.
!/usr/bin/perl
my @MYVAR = qw/alfa bravo charlies delta echo/;
foreach my $item(@MYVAR){
print $item . "\n";
}
Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> Here's a shell question I can't find the answer to. I have a command
>> that returns a set of newline-delimited values to a single variable.
>> Effectively, it looks like this:
>>
>> MYVAR=alfa
>> bravo
>> charlie
>> delta
>> echo
>>
>> I want to split those values out and into separate shell variables that
>> I can use for other things. In the end, it would look like this:
>>
>> MYALFA=alfa
>> MYBRAVO=bravo
>> MYCHARLIE=charlie
>> MYDELTA=delta
>> MYECHO=echo
>>
>> I can't find any bash facility which does this. Anyone know how to do
>> it?
>
> command | cut -f 2- -d = | while read line ; do
> caps="$(echo "$line" | tr a-z A-Z)"
> echo "MY$CAPS"="$line"
> done
>
> Is that what you want?
>
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