Vim startup project files - bash script - bash

Question

This program is supposed to open 3 vim terminals with 3 files opened in each one. I have a startup.txt file in each subfolder with the name of each file that I want to startup. ( one name on each line )
Problems that need to be fixed:
How can I make the command on line 22 executable? It gives me the following errors when I try to run this command ( it opens the first file in each startup.txt though )
Error:
/home/george/bin/project: line 17: vsp: command not found
/home/george/bin/project: line 19: vsp: command not found
/home/george/bin/project: line 17: vsp: command not found
/home/george/bin/project: line 19: vsp: command not found
Updated code:
1 #!/bin/bash
2
3 ADDR_FILE=~/Documents/CEDA #address to the file
4 ADDR_CEDA=$ADDR_FILE/ceda_lib #address for ceda_lib
5 ADDR_GENERAL=$ADDR_FILE/general #address for general
6 ADDR_CLI=$ADDR_FILE/CLI #address for CLI
7
8 function getFile
9 {
10 awk 'NR=='$1 $2/startup.txt
11 }
12
13 for i in $ADDR_CEDA $ADDR_GENERAL $ADDR_CLI; do
14 CMD_2=""
15 CMD_3=""
16 if [ $(getFile 2 $i) ]; then #checks if line 2 isn't blank
17 CMD_2=-c "vsp $i/$(getFile 2 $i)"
18 if [ $(getFile 3 $i) ]; then #checks if line 3 isn't blank
19 CMD_3=-c "vsp $i/$(getFile 3 $i)"
20 fi
21 fi
22 gnome-terminal -e "vim $i/$(getFile 1 $i) $CMD_2 $CMD_3"
23 done
Example startup.txt:
file1.cpp
file2.hpp
file3.hpp
Please note that I'm a beginner in bash scripting. Any general advice would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you are trying to do with vim exactly as I don't use that syntax, but here are some hints.
Your getline() function can easily be replaced with a simple sed command. If file contains:
line 1
line 2
line 3
Try running:
sed '2!d' file
and you will see it deletes all lines other than line 2. So, your vim command starts to look like this:
vim -c vsp $i/$(sed '2!d' $i)
If you want three xterms, you need to start three, and tell each one to execute a new vim. If you want them all running at once, you will need to background them with & at the end. That means your script is starting to look like this:
for i in "file1" "file2" "file3" ; do
xterm -e "vim -c vsp $i/$(sed '2!d' $i) ... " &
done

Answer 2

Working code:
1 #!/bin/bash
2
3 ADDR_FILE=~/Documents/CEDA #address to the file
4 ADDR_CEDA=$ADDR_FILE/ceda_lib #address for ceda_lib
5 ADDR_GENERAL=$ADDR_FILE/general #address for general
6 ADDR_CLI=$ADDR_FILE/CLI #address for CLI
7 ADDRESSES="$ADDR_CEDA $ADDR_GENERAL $ADDR_CLI"
8
9 if [ $1 ]; then #checks for parameters
10 if [ $1 = "-f" ] || [ $1 = "--files" ]; then
11 for i in $ADDRESSES; do
12 nautilus $i &
13 done
14 exit 0 #end script
15 fi
16 fi
17
18 function getFile
19 {
20 awk 'NR=='$1 $2/startup.txt
21 }
22
23 for i in $ADDRESSES; do
24 CMD_2=""
25 CMD_3=""
26 if [ $(getFile 2 $i) ]; then #checks if line 2 isn't blank
27 CMD_2="-c \"vsp $i/$(getFile 2 $i)\""
28 if [ $(getFile 3 $i) ]; then #checks if line 3 isn't blank
29 CMD_3="-c \"vsp $i/$(getFile 3 $i)\""
30 fi
31 fi
32 gnome-terminal -e "vim $i/$(getFile 1 $i) $CMD_2 $CMD_3"
33 done
I will add more to it over time but it does the bare minimum of what I wanted it to do :D Thanks for all your help guys!
PS: I've edited my question quite some times.