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Joshua Soileau
Joshua Soileau

Reputation: 3015

Git - printf remote URL by parameter into console

I'm trying to write a BASH script that will printf the url of a git remote into the console, and the remote corresponds to a parameter to the function.

print-remote() {
    printf "Remote Url: $(git config --get remote.$1.url)"
}

And I would call it like:

print-remote origin

and it should print out

Remote Url: [email protected]:User/repository.git

But this isn't picking up my $1, and I'm just getting back 

Remote Url:

I feel like I'm missing some syntax.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 305

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785621

Try changing your function to:

print-remote() {
   printf "Remote Url: %s\n" "$(git config --get remote."$1".url)"
}

Reason being that if output from git has any % characters or some other special printf characters then printf will try to use them as format parameter.

Or else just use echo:

print-remote() {
   echo "Remote Url: $(git config --get remote."$1".url)"
}

Upvotes: 1

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