create a shell script

[Christian Marquardt_1]

hello,
I need to write a shell script which reads every line from a textfile an split each line in two strings.
that's the file:
dir1 pathtodirectory1
dir2 pathtodirectory2
dir3 pathtodirectory3

I need a script which reads every line, split the line an paste the first value in the variable "dirname" and the second value in the variable "dirpath".

Can anyone help me???

kind regards
Christian

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Christian,

#!/usr/bin/sh
while read dirname dirpath
do
echo $dirname
echo $dirpath
done < textfile

[Muthukumar_5]

Simply as,

while read dirname dirpath;
do

echo ${dirname}
echo ${dirpath}

done < textfile

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Muthu

[Luk Vandenbussche]

dirname=`awk -F " " '{print $1}' < inputfile`
dirpath=`awk -F " " '{print $2}' < inputfile`

[Christian Marquardt_1]

Thanks,
everything works fine.

regards
Christian

[Muthukumar_5]

Luk,

You script will make a problem there. You can not keep track of all informations into one variable.

You can use array concept. But having restriction to use upto 1024 only.

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Muthu