IFS and awk

[Mario_88]

Hello:

What I want is given the following sequence of commands:

commands="cmviewcl -v;ls -al; netstat -an"

execute them one by one. I tried the following

export COMMANDS="cmviewcl -v;netstat -an"
init()
{
export IFS=";"
for i in $@
do
$i
done
}
init $COMMANDS


But it doesnt work and tries to execute the commands: cmviewcl, -v, netstat, -an

Regards,
Mario.

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal · Accepted solution]

Try this:

export COMMANDS="cmviewcl -v;netstat -an"
init()
{
for i in $@
do
$i
done
}

export IFS=";"
init $COMMANDS

[Mario_88]

thanks.

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

Did you get the reason.

The IFS should be there before passing the parameters, in your case the parameters were passed keeping the default IFS.