Reading variables from a file [solved]

[Ric]

Can any one tell me how to read variables from a text file so they can be used with in a bash script

 

ie text file has

 

 
serverone_host=amber 
serverone_ip=10.0.0.1 
servertwo_host=green 
servertwo_ip=10.0.0.2 
and so on

 

bash file picks out the different variables so rather then having to edit a load of scrips i would only have to edit the text file each time i deploy a system

 

gee i am asking the question and that doesn't make sense to me hope it make sense to some one out there

 

Regards

 

Ric

[Steve Scrimpshire]

. data_file

(If it's in the same directory as your script)

 

. /full/path/to/data_file

(If it's n a different directory)

Note that there is a space between . and the filename.

[Cannonfodder]

Are you asking to execute the file?

 

Or read it in the manner of an .ini file? Read variable, get value, do something with it?

[Ric]

Are you asking to execute the file?

 

Or read it in the manner of an .ini file? Read variable, get value, do something with it?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Read it as a .ini file

 

 

Thanks

[Steve Scrimpshire]

textfile:

serverone_host=amber
serverone_ip=10.0.0.1
servertwo_host=green
servertwo_ip=10.0.0.2

 

text.sh:

#!/bin/bash

. textfile

echo "$serverone_host"
echo "$serverone_ip"
echo "$servertwo_host"
echo "$servertwo_ip"

 

< omar ~ > ./text.sh
amber
10.0.0.1
green
10.0.0.2

[Ric]

Thats excactly what i needed, ive been trying to grep and awk my way thro it, this is so much easier.

 

Thanks A Lot

 

Ric