Re: [SLE] Bash scripting question

22 Aug 2006


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I have the following script fragment:
tags=( $( vorbiscomment "$1") )
 for tag in $(seq 0 $((${#tags[@]} - 1)))
  do
  echo ${tags[$tag]}
  done
sifs="$IFS";
IFS='
';
tags=(`vorbiscomment "$1"));
IFS="$sifs";

for tag in "${tags[@]}"; do
    echo "$tag";
done;
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which should extract the comments from the filename in $1 into the array
$tags. So far so good. Unfortunately I find that the input is split up at
spaces and line breaks, meaning that multi-word tags get distributed across
more than one array element. Is there a way to get the assignment statement
to break the vorbiscomment at line breaks only, or do I need to write a
routine to put the broken lines back together?
Jan Engelhardt
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