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==Swapping stdin and stdout ==
== Swapping stdin and stdout ==


  command 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3  
  command 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3  
== extracting vars from strings ==
<pre>
#!/usr/bin/env bash
str1="the value of var1=test, the value of var2=testing, the final value of var3=testing1"
re='(^|[[:space:]])([[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]]*)=([^, ]+)([, ]|$)(.*)'
remaining=$str1
while [[ $remaining =~ $re ]]; do
  varname=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
  value=${BASH_REMATCH[3]}
  remaining=${BASH_REMATCH[5]}
  printf -v "$varname" %s "$value"
done
# show current values to demonstrate that variables were really assigned
declare -p var1 var2 var3
</pre>


== Also See ==
== Also See ==

Revision as of 15:35, 24 December 2019

Swapping stdin and stdout

command 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 

extracting vars from strings

#!/usr/bin/env bash
str1="the value of var1=test, the value of var2=testing, the final value of var3=testing1"
re='(^|[[:space:]])([[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]]*)=([^, ]+)([, ]|$)(.*)'

remaining=$str1
while [[ $remaining =~ $re ]]; do
  varname=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
  value=${BASH_REMATCH[3]}
  remaining=${BASH_REMATCH[5]}
  printf -v "$varname" %s "$value"
done

# show current values to demonstrate that variables were really assigned
declare -p var1 var2 var3


Also See

.bashrc

Stupid Shell Tricks