Read properties file from shell script

Asked Sep 23 '15 at 06:46

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I am reading a properties file having different paths like

path=/home/xxx/yyy

path=/home/zzz

from a shell script. I am using

. /home/test.properties

To read and $path to print to get path into a variable. But as obvious it is overwriting the path variable. Can someone suggest a better way to get these paths into variables in script. Thanks.

EDIT: I am using bash.

edited Sep 23 '15 at 09:04

asked Sep 23 '15 at 06:46

Navinder Pal Singh Brar

Are you talking about the special variable `$PATH`? Are you trying to join all of the paths together? – Tom Fenech Sep 23 '15 at 07:06
No, as I am using path in properties file so I am using $path to get it. Ultimately I want to search for some text in all paths provided by properties file. – Navinder Pal Singh Brar Sep 23 '15 at 07:09
Which shell are you using? Some shells (e.g. bash and ksh) support arrays, which would be useful in this case. – Tom Fenech Sep 23 '15 at 07:58
@TomFenech I have edited the description. Using bash. – Navinder Pal Singh Brar Sep 23 '15 at 09:20
http://stackoverflow.com/a/21591956/1028589 should suit your needs – pacholik Sep 23 '15 at 09:59

Read properties file from shell script

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