Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:35:16 +0200 From: Nils Vogels <nivofreebsd-questions@yuckfou.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell Script gurus?? Message-ID: <20020704173516.GI69958@amor.yuckfou.org> In-Reply-To: <20020704172903.GF56027@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20020704172903.GF56027@ns2.wananchi.com>
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:29:03PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
<snip mysql>
> Now in my script I am reading the domain name from stdin (??
>
> echo Entering domain name in MySQL DB:
> echo ""
> domain_name=
> echo -n Please supply the domain name to activate:
> read domain_name
>
>
> The domain name can be domain.com or the domain.co.ke but I am interested
> in the part before the first (.) so that I can manipulate some parameter
> with it.
man cut
man awk
should help you.
One example could be:
$mydomain=`echo $domain_name|awk -F\. ' { print $1 } '` (this is untested)
HTH
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