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On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:16:25 +0000 |
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David Leverton <u01drl3@×××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Would something like the following be acceptable? If the user uses |
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> bash they can use an array, otherwise (or if they prefer) they can do |
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> the "'...' '...'" thing, transparently to the code that uses the |
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> variable. Could do with more testing of edge cases, but it seems to |
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> work well for me - in bash as is, and in dash and busybox with the |
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> "foo" section commented out. |
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> |
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> get_array() { |
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> local var="${1}" |
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> |
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> if [ -n "${BASH}" ]; then |
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> declaration="$( declare -p "${var}" )" |
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> case "${declaration}" in |
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> "declare -a"*) |
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> echo "set -- \"\${${var}[@]}\"" |
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> return |
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> esac |
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> fi |
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> |
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> echo "eval set -- \"\${${var}}\"" |
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> } |
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Very nice. We need to redirect 2>/dev/null for declare -p incase the |
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variable is not defined, but otherwise it works well in my tests too :) |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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