On 1/14/2010 5:23 PM, Damo, David wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have fixed the problem. It seems in cygwin it spawns a subshell even under
> bash. I used a for loop instead and everything worked nicely.
>
> for line in `sed 's/\$/^/g' $propfile`
> do
> nvpair=$(echo $line | awk -F"=" '{print $1,$2}')
> set -- $nvpair
> if [ ! "$1" = "" ]; then
> eval "$1"=\"$2\"
> fi
> done
Interesting. Your workaround should work fine as long as the propfile
is not too large, I think. However, wouldn't it be easier to source a
properly massaged version of propfile instead?
sed 's/\$/^/g' $propfile | grep -v '^=' >$propfile.tmp
. $propfile.tmp
rm $propfile.tmp
-Jeremy
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