[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk Question

[steve]

>From: Paul Hales <pdhales at optusnet.com.au>
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk question
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>Any idea how to read an external file, grab some stuff and push it back
>into an Asterisk variable?
>
>I can do it the other way with:
>system(echo "${UNIQUEID} =>" >> /home/ast/curr_calls) 
>
>but I'm a bit stumped on how to go the other way around....
>
>much thanks,
>
>Paul Hales
>
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I'll go out on a limb here and take a guess that it could be done as an 
AGI script that incorporates SED (http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/) and 
AWK (http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/gawk.html).  I've used both for 
some bash scripting in the past. . .

Regards,
Steve Cayona
Super Technologies, Inc.