On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:48:46PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Right now, I have a shell script that does the following: > > hostname=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $1}'` > domain=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $2}'` > top0=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $3}'` > top1=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $4}'`
eval can be used to set more than one variable in a single command. This is used by e.g. ssh-agent. # Using a separate function for slightly more clarity domain_parser() { echo $1 | sed -e 's/^\([^.]*\)\.\([^.]*\)\.\([^.]*\)\.\([^.]*\)$/hostname="\1" ; domain="\2"; top0="\3"; top1="\4"/' } eval `domain_parser $NEWDEV` But then, why do you assume a domain name has exactly four elements? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]