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bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Richard Pieri
richard.pi...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Dec 13, 2011, at 11:11 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
Using a block level
I have not done my homework on this as much as I should.
A coworker needs to set variable names and values input from another
file. Normally, I would source that file, but he specifically wants to
parse the file.
So, in simple terms, he has a file that has something like:
var1=foo
Instead of
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
I have not done my homework on this as much as I should.
A coworker needs to set variable names and values input from another
file. Normally, I would source that file, but he specifically wants to
parse the file.
So, in
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:57:04PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I have not done my homework on this as much as I should.
A coworker needs to set variable names and values input from another
file. Normally, I would source that file, but he specifically wants to
parse the file.
So, in simple
On Dec 15, 2011, at 15:57 , Jerry Feldman wrote:
I have not done my homework on this as much as I should.
A coworker needs to set variable names and values input from another
file. Normally, I would source that file, but he specifically wants to
parse the file.
So, in simple terms, he has a
On 12/15/2011 4:25 PM, Peter Doherty wrote:
Of course, one has to ask why your co-worker is doing this, and not just
sourcing the file.
Also, my example will break if you have an equal sign in your variable name or
value name.
This. Sourcing the file is going to be the fastest and most
On 12/15/2011 04:22 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:57:04PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I have not done my homework on this as much as I should.
A coworker needs to set variable names and values input from another
file. Normally, I would source that file, but he
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:27:34PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 12/15/2011 4:25 PM, Peter Doherty wrote:
Of course, one has to ask why your co-worker is doing this, and not just
sourcing the file.
Also, my example will break if you have an equal sign in your variable name
or value
On 12/15/2011 04:27 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 12/15/2011 4:25 PM, Peter Doherty wrote:
Of course, one has to ask why your co-worker is doing this, and not
just sourcing the file.
Also, my example will break if you have an equal sign in your
variable name or value name.
This. Sourcing the
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:35 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 12/15/2011 04:27 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 12/15/2011 4:25 PM, Peter Doherty wrote:
Of course, one has to ask why your co-worker is doing this, and not
just sourcing the file.
Also, my example will break if you have an equal
On 12/15/2011 04:31 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 12/15/2011 04:22 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:57:04PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I have not done my homework on this as much as I should.
A coworker needs to set variable names and values input from another
file.
Thanks guys.
I have several workable solutions for him. The underlying issue is that
he wants to prevent malicious code. In the context he is working on, I
don't think that is a risk, but using egrep to reject any lines that are
not in the form 'var=value'. I also think that his script must be
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 05:16:32PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Thanks guys.
I have several workable solutions for him. The underlying issue is that
he wants to prevent malicious code. In the context he is working on, I
don't think that is a risk, but using egrep to reject any lines that are
On 12/15/2011 04:31 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Just want to simplify.
#!/bin/bash
varname=myvar
varvalue=foo
--- do something to create myvar.
myvar=$varvalue
echo $myvar
I think 'declare' might be what you were looking for, although AFIACT it's not
part of Bourne. But this works with BASH when
On Dec 15, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
This is 100% agreed. The issue is that he does not want to source the
file and I have not been able to talk him out of it. In the past I have
written scripts where you could read the name of a variable, and then
convert it to a variable name,
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical corporations or
typical organizations, etc. Somebody uses a term like overhead or
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
I have not done my homework on this as much as I should.
A coworker needs to set variable names and values input from another
file. Normally, I would source that file, but he specifically wants to
parse the file.
So, in simple
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.comwrote:
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking
with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical
Here are a few personal truisms about 'overhead'.
A long time ago, I found that you are 'overhead' if you are not in the
'Business of the Business'.
If you are in healthcare doctor or a nurse, you are in the business,
if you are mopping the floors in a hospital, doing IT, doing
accounting, you
On 12/15/2011 10:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical corporations or
typical
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