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Re: Variables in files

Posted by Peter Palfrader on 2000-03-07

Dere ADnoctum!

ADnoctum schrieb am Dienstag, den 07. März 2000:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a config file that loks like this:
> 
> variable1=value1
> variable2=value2
> ..
> 
> Is there a way(in bash) to get the value of the variable1 w/o the
> "variable1=". I tried grep but it prints the entire line...

hmm, why not source the file with

source /path/to/file/that.looks.like.this

then you can refer to the variables as easily as $variable1,
$variable2, etc

to print a variable's value use echo:
echo $variable1

HTH

					
                                        yours,
					peter

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