Adahma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have about 400 little 2 line files to create, that I'm sure should >be scriptable, but can't seem to figure out the right tools. > >The file format should be as follows: > >DBUSER=username/password >export DBUSER > >I'd like to be able to run something like: >scriptname username password > >and just have a file created and saved as the user name parameter. > >Is this a sed or awk kinda thing?
The shell will do nicely: #! /bin/sh -e cat >"$1" <<EOF DBUSER=$1/$2 export DBUSER EOF Error detection is left as an exercise for the reader. :) ('sh -e' is a good start, though - the script will terminate if any command in it returns an uncaught error.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]