I can't figure out how to access variables that are stored in a separate file. Can someone let me in on the secret? Please, and thank you.
-Kevin
if they're asking for system environment variables, you can echo the variables and find the path, or i believe you can use "set env" commands. i haven't needed to do that very often though. i might also be mis-understanding what you're asking and be completely way off base. 
remember to export your variables as well.
I need to define variables in a file called usermon.conf and then read in the variables from my main program to use there. I can do the rest of the program, by defining the variables in the program, but I can't figure out how to read in variables from another file.
Example contents of a config file name my.config
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Some config data
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In program that needs config file info
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#!/bin/ksh
#my example program
read configline <my.config
echo "The config data is $configline"
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Another example with same config file
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#!/bin/ksh
#my second example program
read one two three<my.config
echo "The first word was $one"
echo "The second word was $two"
echo "The third word was $three"
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can't you just source the file like this
#!/usr/bin/ksh
. usermon.conf #reads the file into the current script
usermon.conf should contain something like this:
myvar1="whatever1"
myvar2="whatever2"
myvar3="whatever3"
if you're not using ksh, you'll want to use 'source' instead of '.'
i could be completely wrong... i need to install unix at home so i can
verify the crap i'm trying to remember from work!
so, for example, if I were to do
source usermon.conf
it should work?
or how should I be using it, because at present it doesn't work right.
Thanks.
Thanks for the help. I got it working. I had an error in my conf file that was causing the source usermon.conf to not work.
Thanks
-Kevin
Glad to hear it worked... I wasn't totally sure!