Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

[Roy Marples]

On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:03:04 -0800
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:

> Jakub Moc wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger napsal(a):
> >> On Thursday 08 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
> >>> The actual scripts themselves can be re-worked if they need to be
> >>> - this problem only when the arrays are used in config files.
> >> i guess my point was i think we really need to be consistent
> >> here ... either arrays are OK for init.d scripts or they're not OK
> >>
> >> did you get a chance to see how hard it would be to integrate the
> >> bash array code ?
> >
> > sys-apps/855resolution and sys-apps/915resolution use arrays in
> > config files, and there's not much way around it ATM if you want to
> > replace multiple BIOS modes...
> >
> > <snip>
> > # to replace more than one mode do something like this
> > #replace=(
> > #	"4d 1280 768 24"
> > #	"5c 1400 1050 16"
> > #)
>
> How about this?
>
> replace="
> 	'4d 1280 768 24'
> 	'5c 1400 1050 16'
> "
>

Actually, that may work better than my delimited with ; approach.
We could then do

eval set -- "${replace}"
for x in "$@" ; do
 ....
done

Thanks

Roy
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