Bash script help

Software & Operating Systems Linux
#1

Hey everyone!

I am having some trouble with a bash script. I am generating 4 variables through scraping with selenium and I want to create 4 different files, one for each variable.

Right now, I am printing the variables in a vertical list to the terminal.

I need the files to have static names e.g.: 1.txt for variable 1, 2.txt for variable 2, etc etc.

The content of the file should be:

string=$variable

http://127.0.0.1/$string

How can I do this?

#2

What does the rest of your script look like?

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#3

I ended up doing it in the original python script.

My question still stands though, how can you run a different command for each item in an array?

#4 
for i in $array; do
   # do whatever on $i
done

With stringvalues bash loops trough all words (seperated by whitespace/eol chars)

#5

Like the others… i dont think enough information has been provided yet for someone to help without making wild assumptions

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#6

If I understand you correctly I would simply do:

VAR1="if"
VAR2="something"
VAR3="else"
VAR4="nothing"

# DRY violation, but simple enough here
echo -e "string=VAR1\n\nhttp://127.0.0.1/$VAR1" >> 1.txt
echo -e "string=VAR2\n\nhttp://127.0.0.1/$VAR2" >> 2.txt
echo -e "string=VAR3\n\nhttp://127.0.0.1/$VAR3" >> 3.txt
echo -e "string=VAR4\n\nhttp://127.0.0.1/$VAR4" >> 4.txt

Why complicate matters by trying to be clever?

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