I'm writing a POSIX compliant script in dash so I am having to get creative with using fake arrays.
Contents of fake_array.sh
fake_array_job() {
array="$1"
job_name="$2"
comma_count="$(echo "$array" | grep -o -F ',' | wc -l)"
if [ "$comma_count" -lt '1' ]; then
echo 'You gave a fake array to fake_array_job that does not contain at least one comma. Exiting...'
exit
fi
array_count="$(( comma_count + 1 ))"
position=1
while [ "$position" -le "$array_count" ]; do
item="$(echo "$array" | cut -d ',' -f "$position")"
"$job_name" || exit
position="$(( position + 1 ))"
done
}
Contents of script.sh
#!/bin/sh
. fake_array.sh
job_to_do() {
echo "$item"
}
fake_array_job 'goat,pig,sheep' 'job_to_do'
second_job() {
echo "$item"
}
fake_array_job 'apple,orange' 'second_job'
I am aware that it may seem silly to use a unique name for each job I pass to fake_array_job, but I like that I have to type it twice because it helps to reduce human error.
I keep reading that it is a bad idea to use a variable as a command. Does my use of "$job_name" to run a function have any negative implications as it concerns stability, security or efficiency?
(Read to the end for a good suggestion by Charles Duffy. I'm too lazy to completely rewrite my answer to mention it earlier...)
You can iterate over the "array" using simple parameter expansions without requiring multiple elements in the array.
fake_array_job() {
args=${1%,}, # Ensure the array ends with a comma
job_name=$2
while [ -n "$args" ]; do
item=${args%%,*}
"$job_name" || exit
args=${args#*,}
done
}
One problem with the above is that assures that the array is comma-terminated by assuming that foo,bar, is not a comma-delimited array with an empty last element. A better (though uglier) solution is to use read to break up the array.
fake_array_job () {
args=$1
job_name=$2
rest=$args
while [ -n "$rest" ]; do
IFS=, read -r item rest <<EOF
$rest
EOF
"$job_name" || exit
done
}
(You can use <<-EOF and make sure the here doc is indented with tabs, but it's hard to convey that here, so I'll just leave the ugly version.)
There's also Charles Duffy's good suggestion of using case to pattern match on the array to see if there are any commas left or not:
while [ -n "$args" ]; do
case $var in
*,*) next=${args%%,*}; var=${args#*,}; "$cmd" "$next";;
*) "$cmd" "$var"; break;;
esac;
done
Related
I have a bash script that produces some text from a pipe of commands. Based on a command line option I want to do some validation on the output. For a contrived example...
CHECK_OUTPUT=$1
...
check_output()
{
if [[ "$CHECK_OUTPUT" != "--check" ]]; then
# Don't check the output. Passthrough and return.
cat
return 0
fi
# Check each line exists in the fs root
while read line; do
if [[ ! -e "/$line" ]]; then
echo "Error: /$line does not exist"
return 1
fi
echo "$line"
done
return 0
}
ls /usr | grep '^b' | check_output
[EDIT] better example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52539364/1888983
This is really useful, particularly if I have multiple functions that can becomes passthroughs. Yes, I could move the CHECK_OUTPUT conditional and create a pipe with or without check_output but I'd need to write lines for each combination for more functions. If there are better ways to dynamically build a pipe I'd like to know.
The problem is the "useless use of cat". Can this be avoided and make check_output like it wasn't in the pipe at all?
Yes, you can do this -- by making your function a wrapper that conditionally injects a pipeline element, instead of being an unconditional pipeline element itself. For example:
maybe_checked() {
if [[ $CHECK_OUTPUT != "--check" ]]; then
"$#" # just run our arguments as a command, as if we weren't here
else
# run our arguments in a process substitution, reading from stdout of same.
# ...some changes from the original code:
# IFS= stops leading or trailing whitespace from being stripped
# read -r prevents backslashes from being processed
local line # avoid modifying $line outside our function
while IFS= read -r line; do
[[ -e "/$line" ]] || { echo "Error: /$line does not exist" >&2; return 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$line" # see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65803
done < <("$#")
fi
}
ls /usr | maybe_checked grep '^b'
Caveat of the above code: if the pipefail option is set, you'll want to check the exit status of the process substitution to have complete parity with the behavior that would otherwise be the case. In bash version 4.3 or later (IIRC), $? is modified by process substitutions to have the relevant PID, which can be waited for to retrieve exit status.
That said, this is also a use case wherein using cat is acceptable, and I'm saying this as a card-carying member of the UUOC crowd. :)
Adopting the examples from John Kugelman's answers on the linked question:
maybe_sort() {
if (( sort )); then
"$#" | sort
else
"$#"
fi
}
maybe_limit() {
if [[ -n $limit ]]; then
"$#" | head -n "$limit"
else
"$#"
fi
}
printf '%s\n' "${haikus[#]}" | maybe_limit maybe_sort sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'
I am trying to match all characters of given string but those characters should match in the order as given to the bash script.
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
case $1 in
-i)
arg=$2
egrep "*[$arg]*" words.txt
shift ;;
esac
shift
done
$ sh match_the_pattern.sh -i aei words.txt
Should return words like
abstentious
adventitious
sacrilegiousness
If you notice, first a is matched then e and then i, all of them are in order. Plus, the whole word is matched and filtered.
You may use getopts with some bash parameter substitution to construct the query string.
#!/bin/bash
while getopts 'i:' choice
do
case "${choice}" in
i)
length=${#OPTARG}
for((count=0;count<length;count++))
do
if [ $count -eq 0 ]
then
pattern="${pattern}.*${OPTARG:count:1}.*"
else
pattern="${pattern}${OPTARG:count:1}.*"
fi
done
;;
esac
done
# The remaining parameter should be our filename
shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
filename="$1"
# Some error checking based on the parsed values
# Ideally user input should not be trusted, so a security check should
# also be done,omitting that for brevity.
if [ -z "$pattern" ] || [ -z "$filename" ]
then
echo "-i is must. Also, filename cannot be empty"
echo "Run the script like ./scriptname -i 'value' -- filename"
else
grep -i "${pattern}" "$filename"
fi
Refer this to know more on parameter substitution and this for getopts.
Change this:
arg=$2
egrep "*[$arg]*" words.txt
to this:
arg=$(sed 's/./.*[&]/g' <<< "$2")
grep "$arg" words.txt
If that's not all you need then edit your question to clarify your requirements and provide more truly representative sample input/output.
Your regex is matching 'a' or 'e' or 'i' because they are in a character set ([]).
I think the regular expression you are looking for is
a+.*e+.*i+.*
which matches 'a' one or more times, then anything, then 'e' one or more times, then anything, then 'i' one or more times.
I'm encountering an issue passing an argument to a command in a Bash script.
poc.sh:
#!/bin/bash
ARGS='"hi there" test'
./swap ${ARGS}
swap:
#!/bin/sh
echo "${2}" "${1}"
The current output is:
there" "hi
Changing only poc.sh (as I believe swap does what I want it to correctly), how do I get poc.sh to pass "hi there" and test as two arguments, with "hi there" having no quotes around it?
A Few Introductory Words
If at all possible, don't use shell-quoted strings as an input format.
It's hard to parse consistently: Different shells have different extensions, and different non-shell implementations implement different subsets (see the deltas between shlex and xargs below).
It's hard to programmatically generate. ksh and bash have printf '%q', which will generate a shell-quoted string with contents of an arbitrary variable, but no equivalent exists to this in the POSIX sh standard.
It's easy to parse badly. Many folks consuming this format use eval, which has substantial security concerns.
NUL-delimited streams are a far better practice, as they can accurately represent any possible shell array or argument list with no ambiguity whatsoever.
xargs, with bashisms
If you're getting your argument list from a human-generated input source using shell quoting, you might consider using xargs to parse it. Consider:
array=( )
while IFS= read -r -d ''; do
array+=( "$REPLY" )
done < <(xargs printf '%s\0' <<<"$ARGS")
swap "${array[#]}"
...will put the parsed content of $ARGS into the array array. If you wanted to read from a file instead, substitute <filename for <<<"$ARGS".
xargs, POSIX-compliant
If you're trying to write code compliant with POSIX sh, this gets trickier. (I'm going to assume file input here for reduced complexity):
# This does not work with entries containing literal newlines; you need bash for that.
run_with_args() {
while IFS= read -r entry; do
set -- "$#" "$entry"
done
"$#"
}
xargs printf '%s\n' <argfile | run_with_args ./swap
These approaches are safer than running xargs ./swap <argfile inasmuch as it will throw an error if there are more or longer arguments than can be accommodated, rather than running excess arguments as separate commands.
Python shlex -- rather than xargs -- with bashisms
If you need more accurate POSIX sh parsing than xargs implements, consider using the Python shlex module instead:
shlex_split() {
python -c '
import shlex, sys
for item in shlex.split(sys.stdin.read()):
sys.stdout.write(item + "\0")
'
}
while IFS= read -r -d ''; do
array+=( "$REPLY" )
done < <(shlex_split <<<"$ARGS")
Embedded quotes do not protect whitespace; they are treated literally. Use an array in bash:
args=( "hi there" test)
./swap "${args[#]}"
In POSIX shell, you are stuck using eval (which is why most shells support arrays).
args='"hi there" test'
eval "./swap $args"
As usual, be very sure you know the contents of $args and understand how the resulting string will be parsed before using eval.
Ugly Idea Alert: Pure Bash Function
Here's a quoted-string parser written in pure bash (what terrible fun)!
Caveat: just like the xargs example above, this errors in the case of an escaped quote. This could be fixed... but much better to do in an actual programming language.
Example Usage
MY_ARGS="foo 'bar baz' qux * "'$(dangerous)'" sudo ls -lah"
# Create array from multi-line string
IFS=$'\r\n' GLOBIGNORE='*' args=($(parseargs "$MY_ARGS"))
# Show each of the arguments array
for arg in "${args[#]}"; do
echo "$arg"
done
Example Output
foo
bar baz
qux
*
Parse Argument Function
This literally goes character-by-character and either adds to the current string or the current array.
set -u
set -e
# ParseArgs will parse a string that contains quoted strings the same as bash does
# (same as most other *nix shells do). This is secure in the sense that it doesn't do any
# executing or interpreting. However, it also doesn't do any escaping, so you shouldn't pass
# these strings to shells without escaping them.
parseargs() {
notquote="-"
str=$1
declare -a args=()
s=""
# Strip leading space, then trailing space, then end with space.
str="${str## }"
str="${str%% }"
str+=" "
last_quote="${notquote}"
is_space=""
n=$(( ${#str} - 1 ))
for ((i=0;i<=$n;i+=1)); do
c="${str:$i:1}"
# If we're ending a quote, break out and skip this character
if [ "$c" == "$last_quote" ]; then
last_quote=$notquote
continue
fi
# If we're in a quote, count this character
if [ "$last_quote" != "$notquote" ]; then
s+=$c
continue
fi
# If we encounter a quote, enter it and skip this character
if [ "$c" == "'" ] || [ "$c" == '"' ]; then
is_space=""
last_quote=$c
continue
fi
# If it's a space, store the string
re="[[:space:]]+" # must be used as a var, not a literal
if [[ $c =~ $re ]]; then
if [ "0" == "$i" ] || [ -n "$is_space" ]; then
echo continue $i $is_space
continue
fi
is_space="true"
args+=("$s")
s=""
continue
fi
is_space=""
s+="$c"
done
if [ "$last_quote" != "$notquote" ]; then
>&2 echo "error: quote not terminated"
return 1
fi
for arg in "${args[#]}"; do
echo "$arg"
done
return 0
}
I may or may not keep this updated at:
https://git.coolaj86.com/coolaj86/git-scripts/src/branch/master/git-proxy
Seems like a rather stupid thing to do... but I had the itch... oh well.
This might not be the most robust approach, but it is simple, and seems to work for your case:
## demonstration matching the question
$ ( ARGS='"hi there" test' ; ./swap ${ARGS} )
there" "hi
## simple solution, using 'xargs'
$ ( ARGS='"hi there" test' ; echo ${ARGS} |xargs ./swap )
test hi there
In my script I need to expand an interval, e.g.:
input: 1,5-7
to get something like the following:
output: 1,5,6,7
I've found other solutions here, but they involve python and I can't use it in my script.
Solution with Just Bash 4 Builtins
You can use Bash range expansions. For example, assuming you've already parsed your input you can perform a series of successive operations to transform your range into a comma-separated series. For example:
value1=1
value2='5-7'
value2=${value2/-/..}
value2=`eval echo {$value2}`
echo "input: $value1,${value2// /,}"
All the usual caveats about the dangers of eval apply, and you'd definitely be better off solving this problem in Perl, Ruby, Python, or AWK. If you can't or won't, then you should at least consider including some pipeline tools like tr or sed in your conversions to avoid the need for eval.
Try something like this:
#!/bin/bash
for f in ${1//,/ }; do
if [[ $f =~ - ]]; then
a+=( $(seq ${f%-*} 1 ${f#*-}) )
else
a+=( $f )
fi
done
a=${a[*]}
a=${a// /,}
echo $a
Edit: As #Maxim_united mentioned in the comments, appending might be preferable to re-creating the array over and over again.
This should work with multiple ranges too.
#! /bin/bash
input="1,5-7,13-18,22"
result_str=""
for num in $(tr ',' ' ' <<< "$input"); do
if [[ "$num" == *-* ]]; then
res=$(seq -s ',' $(sed -n 's#\([0-9]\+\)-\([0-9]\+\).*#\1 \2#p' <<< "$num"))
else
res="$num"
fi
result_str="$result_str,$res"
done
echo ${result_str:1}
Will produce the following output:
1,5,6,7,13,14,15,16,17,18,22
expand_commas()
{
local arg
local st en i
set -- ${1//,/ }
for arg
do
case $arg in
[0-9]*-[0-9]*)
st=${arg%-*}
en=${arg#*-}
for ((i = st; i <= en; i++))
do
echo $i
done
;;
*)
echo $arg
;;
esac
done
}
Usage:
result=$(expand_commas arg)
eg:
result=$(expand_commas 1,5-7,9-12,3)
echo $result
You'll have to turn the separated words back into commas, of course.
It's a bit fragile with bad inputs but it's entirely in bash.
Here's my stab at it:
input=1,5-7,10,17-20
IFS=, read -a chunks <<< "$input"
output=()
for chunk in "${chunks[#]}"
do
IFS=- read -a args <<< "$chunk"
if (( ${#args[#]} == 1 )) # single number
then
output+=(${args[*]})
else # range
output+=($(seq "${args[#]}"))
fi
done
joined=$(sed -e 's/ /,/g' <<< "${output[*]}")
echo $joined
Basically split on commas, then interpret each piece. Then join back together with commas at the end.
A generic bash solution using the sequence expression `{x..y}'
#!/bin/bash
function doIt() {
local inp="${#/,/ }"
declare -a args=( $(echo ${inp/-/..}) )
local item
local sep
for item in "${args[#]}"
do
case ${item} in
*..*) eval "for i in {${item}} ; do echo -n \${sep}\${i}; sep=, ; done";;
*) echo -n ${sep}${item};;
esac
sep=,
done
}
doIt "1,5-7"
Should work with any input following the sample in the question. Also with multiple occurrences of x-y
Use only bash builtins
Using ideas from both #Ansgar Wiechers and #CodeGnome:
input="1,5-7,13-18,22"
for s in ${input//,/ }
do
if [[ $f =~ - ]]
then
a+=( $(eval echo {${s//-/..}}) )
else
a+=( $s )
fi
done
oldIFS=$IFS; IFS=$','; echo "${a[*]}"; IFS=$oldIFS
Works in Bash 3
Considering all the other answers, I came up with this solution, which does not use any sub-shells (but one call to eval for brace expansion) or separate processes:
# range list is assumed to be in $1 (e.g. 1-3,5,9-13)
# convert $1 to an array of ranges ("1-3" "5" "9-13")
IFS=,
local range=($1)
unset IFS
list=() # initialize result list
local r
for r in "${range[#]}"; do
if [[ $r == *-* ]]; then
# if the range is of the form "x-y",
# * convert to a brace expression "{x..y}",
# * using eval, this gets expanded to "x" "x+1" … "y" and
# * append this to the list array
eval list+=( {${r/-/..}} )
else
# otherwise, it is a simple number and can be appended to the array
list+=($r)
fi
done
# test output
echo ${list[#]}
I have a bash script that is being used in a CGI. The CGI sets the $QUERY_STRING environment variable by reading everything after the ? in the URL. For example, http://example.com?a=123&b=456&c=ok sets QUERY_STRING=a=123&b=456&c=ok.
Somewhere I found the following ugliness:
b=$(echo "$QUERY_STRING" | sed -n 's/^.*b=\([^&]*\).*$/\1/p' | sed "s/%20/ /g")
which will set $b to whatever was found in $QUERY_STRING for b. However, my script has grown to have over ten input parameters. Is there an easier way to automatically convert the parameters in $QUERY_STRING into environment variables usable by bash?
Maybe I'll just use a for loop of some sort, but it'd be even better if the script was smart enough to automatically detect each parameter and maybe build an array that looks something like this:
${parm[a]}=123
${parm[b]}=456
${parm[c]}=ok
How could I write code to do that?
Try this:
saveIFS=$IFS
IFS='=&'
parm=($QUERY_STRING)
IFS=$saveIFS
Now you have this:
parm[0]=a
parm[1]=123
parm[2]=b
parm[3]=456
parm[4]=c
parm[5]=ok
In Bash 4, which has associative arrays, you can do this (using the array created above):
declare -A array
for ((i=0; i<${#parm[#]}; i+=2))
do
array[${parm[i]}]=${parm[i+1]}
done
which will give you this:
array[a]=123
array[b]=456
array[c]=ok
Edit:
To use indirection in Bash 2 and later (using the parm array created above):
for ((i=0; i<${#parm[#]}; i+=2))
do
declare var_${parm[i]}=${parm[i+1]}
done
Then you will have:
var_a=123
var_b=456
var_c=ok
You can access these directly:
echo $var_a
or indirectly:
for p in a b c
do
name="var$p"
echo ${!name}
done
If possible, it's better to avoid indirection since it can make code messy and be a source of bugs.
you can break $QUERY down using IFS. For example, setting it to &
$ QUERY="a=123&b=456&c=ok"
$ echo $QUERY
a=123&b=456&c=ok
$ IFS="&"
$ set -- $QUERY
$ echo $1
a=123
$ echo $2
b=456
$ echo $3
c=ok
$ array=($#)
$ for i in "${array[#]}"; do IFS="=" ; set -- $i; echo $1 $2; done
a 123
b 456
c ok
And you can save to a hash/dictionary in Bash 4+
$ declare -A hash
$ for i in "${array[#]}"; do IFS="=" ; set -- $i; hash[$1]=$2; done
$ echo ${hash["b"]}
456
Please don't use the evil eval junk.
Here's how you can reliably parse the string and get an associative array:
declare -A param
while IFS='=' read -r -d '&' key value && [[ -n "$key" ]]; do
param["$key"]=$value
done <<<"${QUERY_STRING}&"
If you don't like the key check, you could do this instead:
declare -A param
while IFS='=' read -r -d '&' key value; do
param["$key"]=$value
done <<<"${QUERY_STRING:+"${QUERY_STRING}&"}"
Listing all the keys and values from the array:
for key in "${!param[#]}"; do
echo "$key: ${param[$key]}"
done
I packaged the sed command up into another script:
$cat getvar.sh
s='s/^.*'${1}'=\([^&]*\).*$/\1/p'
echo $QUERY_STRING | sed -n $s | sed "s/%20/ /g"
and I call it from my main cgi as:
id=`./getvar.sh id`
ds=`./getvar.sh ds`
dt=`./getvar.sh dt`
...etc, etc - you get idea.
works for me even with a very basic busybox appliance (my PVR in this case).
To converts the contents of QUERY_STRING into bash variables use the following command:
eval $(echo ${QUERY_STRING//&/;})
The inner step, echo ${QUERY_STRING//&/;}, substitutes all ampersands with semicolons producing a=123;b=456;c=ok which the eval then evaluates into the current shell.
The result can then be used as bash variables.
echo $a
echo $b
echo $c
The assumptions are:
values will never contain '&'
values will never contain ';'
QUERY_STRING will never contain malicious code
While the accepted answer is probably the most beautiful one, there might be cases where security is super-important, and it needs to be also well-visible from your script.
In such a case, first I wouldn't use bash for the task, but if it should be done on some reason, it might be better to avoid these new array - dictionary features, because you can't be sure, how exactly are they escaped.
In this case, the good old primitive solutions might work:
QS="${QUERY_STRING}"
while [ "${QS}" != "" ]
do
nameval="${QS%%&*}"
QS="${QS#$nameval}"
QS="${QS#&}"
name="${nameval%%=*}"
val="${nameval#$name}"
val="${nameval#=}"
# and here we have $name and $val as names and values
# ...
done
This iterates on the name-value pairs of the QUERY_STRING, and there is no way to circumvent it with any tricky escape sequence - the " is a very strong thing in bash, except a single variable name substitution, which is fully controlled by us, nothing can be tricked.
Furthermore, you can inject your own processing code into "# ...". This enables you to allow only your own, well-defined (and, ideally, short) list of the allowed variable names. Needless to say, LD_PRELOAD shouldn't be one of them. ;-)
Furthermore, no variable will be exported, and exclusively QS, nameval, name and val is used.
Following the correct answer, I've done myself some changes to support array variables like in this other question. I added also a decode function of which I can not find the author to give some credit.
Code appears somewhat messy, but it works. Changes and other recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
function cgi_decodevar() {
[ $# -ne 1 ] && return
local v t h
# replace all + with whitespace and append %%
t="${1//+/ }%%"
while [ ${#t} -gt 0 -a "${t}" != "%" ]; do
v="${v}${t%%\%*}" # digest up to the first %
t="${t#*%}" # remove digested part
# decode if there is anything to decode and if not at end of string
if [ ${#t} -gt 0 -a "${t}" != "%" ]; then
h=${t:0:2} # save first two chars
t="${t:2}" # remove these
v="${v}"`echo -e \\\\x${h}` # convert hex to special char
fi
done
# return decoded string
echo "${v}"
return
}
saveIFS=$IFS
IFS='=&'
VARS=($QUERY_STRING)
IFS=$saveIFS
for ((i=0; i<${#VARS[#]}; i+=2))
do
curr="$(cgi_decodevar ${VARS[i]})"
next="$(cgi_decodevar ${VARS[i+2]})"
prev="$(cgi_decodevar ${VARS[i-2]})"
value="$(cgi_decodevar ${VARS[i+1]})"
array=${curr%"[]"}
if [ "$curr" == "$next" ] && [ "$curr" != "$prev" ] ;then
j=0
declare var_${array}[$j]="$value"
elif [ $i -gt 1 ] && [ "$curr" == "$prev" ]; then
j=$((j + 1))
declare var_${array}[$j]="$value"
else
declare var_$curr="$value"
fi
done
I would simply replace the & to ;. It will become to something like:
a=123;b=456;c=ok
So now you need just evaluate and read your vars:
eval `echo "${QUERY_STRING}"|tr '&' ';'`
echo $a
echo $b
echo $c
A nice way to handle CGI query strings is to use Haserl which acts as a wrapper around your Bash cgi script, and offers convenient and secure query string parsing.
To bring this up to date, if you have a recent Bash version then you can achieve this with regular expressions:
q="$QUERY_STRING"
re1='^(\w+=\w+)&?'
re2='^(\w+)=(\w+)$'
declare -A params
while [[ $q =~ $re1 ]]; do
q=${q##*${BASH_REMATCH[0]}}
[[ ${BASH_REMATCH[1]} =~ $re2 ]] && params+=([${BASH_REMATCH[1]}]=${BASH_REMATCH[2]})
done
If you don't want to use associative arrays then just change the penultimate line to do what you want. For each iteration of the loop the parameter is in ${BASH_REMATCH[1]} and its value is in ${BASH_REMATCH[2]}.
Here is the same thing as a function in a short test script that iterates over the array outputs the query string's parameters and their values
#!/bin/bash
QUERY_STRING='foo=hello&bar=there&baz=freddy'
get_query_string() {
local q="$QUERY_STRING"
local re1='^(\w+=\w+)&?'
local re2='^(\w+)=(\w+)$'
while [[ $q =~ $re1 ]]; do
q=${q##*${BASH_REMATCH[0]}}
[[ ${BASH_REMATCH[1]} =~ $re2 ]] && eval "$1+=([${BASH_REMATCH[1]}]=${BASH_REMATCH[2]})"
done
}
declare -A params
get_query_string params
for k in "${!params[#]}"
do
v="${params[$k]}"
echo "$k : $v"
done
Note the parameters end up in the array in reverse order (it's associative so that shouldn't matter).
why not this
$ echo "${QUERY_STRING}"
name=carlo&last=lanza&city=pfungen-CH
$ saveIFS=$IFS
$ IFS='&'
$ eval $QUERY_STRING
$ IFS=$saveIFS
now you have this
name = carlo
last = lanza
city = pfungen-CH
$ echo "name is ${name}"
name is carlo
$ echo "last is ${last}"
last is lanza
$ echo "city is ${city}"
city is pfungen-CH
#giacecco
To include a hiphen in the regex you could change the two lines as such in answer from #starfry.
Change these two lines:
local re1='^(\w+=\w+)&?'
local re2='^(\w+)=(\w+)$'
To these two lines:
local re1='^(\w+=(\w+|-|)+)&?'
local re2='^(\w+)=((\w+|-|)+)$'
For all those who couldn't get it working with the posted answers (like me),
this guy figured it out.
Can't upvote his post unfortunately...
Let me repost the code here real quick:
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$REQUEST_METHOD" = "POST" ]; then
if [ "$CONTENT_LENGTH" -gt 0 ]; then
read -n $CONTENT_LENGTH POST_DATA <&0
fi
fi
#echo "$POST_DATA" > data.bin
IFS='=&'
set -- $POST_DATA
#2- Value1
#4- Value2
#6- Value3
#8- Value4
echo $2 $4 $6 $8
echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo ""
echo "<html><head><title>Saved</title></head><body>"
echo "Data received: $POST_DATA"
echo "</body></html>"
Hope this is of help for anybody.
Cheers
Actually I liked bolt's answer, so I made a version which works with Busybox as well (ash in Busybox does not support here string).
This code will accept key1 and key2 parameters, all others will be ignored.
while IFS= read -r -d '&' KEYVAL && [[ -n "$KEYVAL" ]]; do
case ${KEYVAL%=*} in
key1) KEY1=${KEYVAL#*=} ;;
key2) KEY2=${KEYVAL#*=} ;;
esac
done <<END
$(echo "${QUERY_STRING}&")
END
One can use the bash-cgi.sh, which processes :
the query string into the $QUERY_STRING_GET key and value array;
the post request data (x-www-form-urlencoded) into the $QUERY_STRING_POST key and value array;
the cookies data into the $HTTP_COOKIES key and value array.
Demands bash version 4.0 or higher (to define the key and value arrays above).
All processing is made by bash only (i.e. in an one process) without any external dependencies and additional processes invoking.
It has:
the check for max length of data, which can be transferred to it's input,
as well as processed as query string and cookies;
the redirect() procedure to produce redirect to itself with the extension changed to .html (it is useful for an one page's sites);
the http_header_tail() procedure to output the last two strings of the HTTP(S) respond's header;
the $REMOTE_ADDR value sanitizer from possible injections;
the parser and evaluator of the escaped UTF-8 symbols embedded into the values passed to the $QUERY_STRING_GET, $QUERY_STRING_POST and $HTTP_COOKIES;
the sanitizer of the $QUERY_STRING_GET, $QUERY_STRING_POST and $HTTP_COOKIES values against possible SQL injections (the escaping like the mysql_real_escape_string php function does, plus the escaping of # and $).
It is available here:
https://github.com/VladimirBelousov/fancy_scripts
This works in dash using for in loop
IFS='&'
for f in $query_string; do
value=${f##*=}
key=${f%%=*}
# if you need environment variable -> eval "qs_$key=$value"
done