shell scripting code:
$head=`echo "$value" | awk '{gsub(/%+/,"\n");print;}'`;
$tail=`echo "$value" | awk '{gsub(/^+/,"\n");print;}'`;
html code:
$value1="<td><a href=\"$tail\">$head</a></td>";
sample input from user:
$value= %Link1^www.google.com%Link2^www.facdebook.com
output:
<a href="https://www.google.com/">Link1</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/">Link2</a>
With your shown samples, please try following awk program. Also while creating shell variable we need not to use $ make it without $ and while printing it only use it.
##Shell variable named value.
value="%Link1^www.google.com%Link2^www.facdebook.com"
Then following is the code need to be used for generating html code:
echo "$value" |
awk -F'[\\^%]' '
{
print "<a href=\"https://" $3"/\">" $2"</a>" ORS "<a href=\"https://" $5"/\">" $4"</a>"
}
'
Generic solution: In order to handle multiple inputs from variable, try following awk code.
echo "$value" | awk -F'[\\^%]' '
{
for(i=2;i<=NF;i+=2){
print "<a href=\"https://" $(i+1)"/\">" $i "</a>"
}
}
'