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Johnathan Brown Johnny
Johnathan Brown Johnny

Reputation: 35

Can't seem to print variable within <string> </string>

Ran into another roadblock. I'm to generate text that looks like the following. 

<dict>
            <key>cfurl_string</key>
            <string>/Applications/Launchpad.app</string>
        </dict>
        <dict>
            <key>cfurl_string</key>
            <string>/Applications/Safari.app</string>
        </dict>
        <dict>
            <key>cfurl_string</key>
            <string>/Applications/Photos.app</string>
        </dict>

It's not too complex, but here is the code used to generate this:

for i in $(cut -d "," -f1 $1); do
 printf '<dict>\n'
 printf ' <key>cfurl_string</key>\n'
 printf ' <string>'
 echo -n "$i"
 printf '</string>\n'
 printf '</dict>\n'

done
echo "</array>"

where $1 is a csv file that a user specifies. A column contains a list of application locations: 

/Applications/Launchpad
/Applications/Safari
/Applications/Pages
/Applications/Numbers
/Applications/Keynote
/Applications/Photos
/Applications/iMovie
/Applications/GarageBand
/Applications/Microsoft Word
/Applications/Microsoft Excel

When I run the script without the variable, I get this:

<array>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string></string>
</dict>
</array>

But if I run the command with the variable printed, it causes it to act weird EXCEPT for the last value in the loop. 

.app</string>lications/GarageBand
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
.app</string>lications/Microsoft Word
</dict>
<dict>
 <key>cfurl_string</key>
 <string>/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app</string>
</dict>
</array>

I've tried tricking it, but once I get it in the way that i want it, it acts weird. Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 27

Answers (2)

Indent
Indent

Reputation: 4967

Replace loop for by while :

while IFS="," read i
do
 printf '<dict>\n'
 printf ' <key>cfurl_string</key>\n'
 printf ' <string>'
 printf ' <string>%s</string>\n' "$i"
 printf '</string>\n'
 printf '</dict>\n'
done < "$1"
printf "</array>\n"

Upvotes: 1

Cyrus
Cyrus

Reputation: 88583

Check your csv file for non-printable characters: cat -A file.csv or cat -v file.csv

If you find something like ^M, then I recommend: dos2unix file.csv

Upvotes: 0

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