On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Alister Waller wrote: > Hi, > > I have a shell script that I am trying to tidy up a bit by creating > variables and looping around to process things rather than have multiple > lines of the same code. > > I have a companies file that contains RR and XX > > What I want is for the script to process the export for each company in the > companies file and check to see if that companies export flag is set to YES, > if so do the export, if not then miss it out. > > I have an example below: > > #!/bin/bash > > RRexportflag=yes > XXexportflag=no > > for i in `cat companies` > do > > if [ $iexportflag = "yes" ] ; then > > ...do some exporting ... > > fi > done
After reading a few other posts I think I get it. #!/bin/bash RRexportflag=yes XXexportflag=no ef=exportflag for i in `cat companies` do if [ "$i$ef" = "yes" ]; then ... do some exporting fi done -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
