Strange error in bash

horacioemilio · 06-11-2009, 04:16 PM

Hi,

I have the following text file;

....
Match database: score.txt
.....

I want to read with a bash script the "score.txt" and assign it to a variable. So i do;

#!/bin/bash

read l1 l2 scfile <<< $(cat text.txt | grep Match | grep database | grep txt )
echo $scfile
ls -l $scfile

with the echo command i get on screen;

score.txt

but with ls -l $scfile or another command I get errors like;

\r: No such file or directory

What could be the reason?

anomie · 06-11-2009, 06:08 PM

\r may represent a carriage return (hex D) in this context. Perhaps you edited the file using Windows notepad or some such? (Just speculating.)

In any case, please explain exactly what it is you're trying to accomplish here. If all you're really trying to do is read a file into a variable, why not use something simpler like:

Code:

foo=$(cat file.txt)

ghostdog74 · 06-11-2009, 06:54 PM

why make it so complex, in bash, just use the while read loop

Code:

while read line
do
 #do something
done  < file

$line will be your variable for each line while iterating

horacioemilio · 06-12-2009, 03:54 AM

thanks for the answer

just one silly question,

using your procedure, each line can be;

10 20 score1.txt
10 15 42 score3.txt

how could i do for each line something like "separate the line into pieces (10, 20, score1.txt), and then check which chunk is equal to score

??

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghostdog74

why make it so complex, in bash, just use the while read loop

Code:

while read line
do
 #do something
done  < file

$line will be your variable for each line while iterating

ghostdog74 · 06-12-2009, 06:23 AM

i prefer awk

Code:

awk -v score=$score '
{
 for(i=1; i<=NF;i++){
   if ($i == score){
     print $0
   }
 }
}
' file