I'm creating a script in Bash to change all MAC addresses of my PC. I can list all network interfaces with this:
ip link | grep "<" | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -d ":" -f 1 | grep -v lo
And the output of the script is:
eth0
wlan0
Now I need to create a variable for each network interface (to use it in the future), but I don't know how, and Google didn't help me...
readarray -t interfaces < <(ip link | grep "<" | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -d ":" -f 1 | grep -v lo)
echo "${interfaces[0]}" # prints eth0
echo "${interfaces[1]}" # prints wlan0
And to loop over them use for:
for curInterface in "${interfaces[@]}"; do
echo "$curInterface"
done
First of all, instead of grepping < character you can use -o flag. This will output all of the data on single lines. Then you simply need the second word without : character. This is very simple in pure bash:
interfaces=()
while read -r _ curInterface _; do
interfaces+=("${curInterface%:}")
done < <(ip -o link)
-t to readarray making it include the newlines on the array as well. Also, your other way to parse data would place it on a subshell leaving interfaces to no value.readarray? ;) I also suggest using other variables beside _ for the sake of good practice. Bash uses that variable as well.
echo ${curInterface[0]} without quotes. echo successfully trimmed the string and made me think that I'm done :) How does bash use _ variable?__. Actually I'm probably the only one who does that, unless someone copies my style :)
Store the output in an array:
interfaces=( $(ip link | awk '/</ { print $2 }' | awk -F: '!/lo/ {print $1}') )
You can create an array from this output, and loop through it after.
my_array=( $(ip link | grep "<" | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -d ":" -f 1 | grep -v lo) )
You can also this exmaple giving different alternatives redirect output to array
And I could have it simpler like this with one awk command:
readarray -t youravar < <(exec ip link | awk -F': ' '/^[0-9]+:/&&!/ lo: /{print $2}')
