Re: variable for test script in bb-hosts?

[Kolbjørn Barmen <kolbjorn.barmen (at) uninett.no>]

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:15:52AM +0200, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
> > 
> > I picture something like mytest;key=val and then being able to pick up
> > ${key} with value "val" from the test script.
> 
> Since your test script is a custom script, there is no problem in doing
> that. Use something like this in your script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> $BBHOME/bin/bbhostgrep --no-extras "mytest*" | \
> while read L
> do
>     set $L
>     IP=$1; shift
>     MACHINE=$1; shift
>     shift
>     TESTSPEC=$1
> 
>     OPTVAL=`echo "$TESTSPEC" | cut -d';' -f2`
>     echo "Testing machine $MACHINE with option $OPTVAL"
> done

Ah, ofcourse - bbhostgrep - how obvious, silly me :)

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