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Hi,

very new to bash scripting. hacking my way through a pretty big program.

anyway the $go could be $go1-$go9

in the below example there are 4 $gos

how could I create a while loop instead of doing the below for each instance of go.



Thanks

Dynacade

That was something funny to do (with indirections).

Thanks jsz...

Yes I am would be blushing if anyone saw my code. I do things very silly.. but it gets done

I am going to try your loop!

Thanks for your help. I will let you know if it worked.

Well, you just thought of another way to do it.

By the way, I think that do nothing doesn't have to be printed, does it?
If so, you can reduce the code:



Also, I'd use a for-loop instead of a while-loop since you can declare the variable i explicitly within it, and it's more understandable.

eeek.. Ok so I am still having a problem.. So maybe I should explain a little further what I am doing.

Yes "Do nothing" was just something I put in there so the forum would know I am not doing anything there.

I have have a script that runs date, time and wget commands 1-9 times in a row over ssh. It records the results to a .txt file



the above example is a run of 3 times to 3 servers. as I said this could be run 1-9 times.


I then have some grep | cut commands that pull the times and speeds out and writes them to >> result.file

so then I run



This will give me:

$time1
$time2
$time3

inside the variables is

$time1=0m0.623s
$time2=0m0.738s
$time3=0m0.654s

I then do the same thing for speed

$speed1=567kbs
$speed2=435kbs
$speed3=583kbs

Now I want to write to a spread sheet



Now since I have 3 results I need to write a new row 3 times

here is an example of a filled out row



So what I want to do is be able to repeat/append the above for each time there is $time1-9 or $speed1-9.

Hopefully that made sense.. I am kind of stuck on this. So any help will be greatly appreciated...

All the best
Cade

Well, I'm not sure if your stuck on creating the spreadsheet part or the other part, but I deal with spreadsheets/bash everday.
What I've found easiest for me, is to normally write the data out to a txt file, in a pipe delimited fashion.

Importing pipe delimited data into a spreadsheet is extremely easy to accomplish. Exporting the data is equally as simple.

This page: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=12922 has alot of examples of converting from one format to another if you have to do it via the script.