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+ <nadpis>Writing an output filter in Bash</nadpis>
+ <perex>processing relational data in GNU Bash or some other shell</perex>
+ <m:pořadí-příkladu>00600</m:pořadí-příkladu>
+
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+
+ <p>
+ In previous example we created an output filter in Perl.
+ We converted a relation to values separated by <code>\0</code> and then passed it through <code>xargs</code> to a perl <em>one-liner</em> (or a <em>multi-liner</em> in this case).
+ But we can write such output filter in pure Bash without <code>xargs</code> and <code>perl</code>.
+ Of course, it is still limited to a single relation (or it can process multiple relations of same type and do something like implicit <code>UNION ALL</code>).
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ We will define a function that will help us with reading the <code>\0</code>-separated values and putting them into shell variables:
+ </p>
+
+ <m:pre jazyk="bash"><![CDATA[read_nullbyte() { for v in "$@"; do export "$v"; read -r -d '' "$v"; done }]]></m:pre>
+
+ <!--
+ This version will not require the last \0:
+ read_zero() { for v in "$@"; do export "$v"; read -r -d '' "$v" || [ ! -z "${!v}" ]; done }
+ at least in case when the last value is not missing.
+ Other values might be null/missing: \0\0 is OK.
+ -->
+
+ <p>
+ Currently, there is no known way how to do this without a custom function (just with <code>read</code> built-in command of Bash and its parameters).
+ But it is just a single line function, so not a big deal.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ And then we just read the values, put them in shell variables and process them in a cycle in a shell block of code:
+ </p>
+
+ <m:pre jazyk="bash"><![CDATA[relpipe-in-fstab \
+ | relpipe-out-nullbyte \
+ | while read_nullbyte scheme device mount_point fs_type options dump pass; do
+ echo "Device ${scheme:+$scheme=}$device is mounted" \
+ "at $mount_point and contains $fs_type.";
+ done]]></m:pre>
+
+ <p>
+ Which will print:
+ </p>
+
+ <pre><![CDATA[Device UUID=29758270-fd25-4a6c-a7bb-9a18302816af is mounted at / and contains ext4.
+Device /dev/sr0 is mounted at /media/cdrom0 and contains udf,iso9660.
+Device /dev/sde is mounted at /mnt/data and contains ext4.
+Device UUID=a2b5f230-a795-4f6f-a39b-9b57686c86d5 is mounted at /home and contains btrfs.
+Device /dev/mapper/sdf_crypt is mounted at /mnt/private and contains xfs.]]></pre>
+
+ <p>
+ Using this method, we can convert any single relation to any format (preferably some text one, but <code>printf</code> can produce also binary data).
+ This is good for ad-hoc conversions and single-relation data.
+ More powerful tools can be written in C++ and other languages like Java, Python, Guile etc. (when particular libraries are available).
+ </p>
+
+ </text>
+
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