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I need to check 2 assetions:

1. The file content format


2. Iterate over that content:

So, the content file must be:

key1=value
key2=value2
...

So, each line must have the format key=value. Spaces are not allowed before or after the =. This file content has to be an env format file.

By other hand, I need to split out each line into a key and a value inside a loop.

Any ideas?

With bash:

n=0
while IFS="=" read -r key value; do
 ((n++))
 if [[ -z $key ]]; then echo "missing key on line $n"; continue; fi
 if [[ -z $value ]]; then echo "empty value on line $n"; continue; fi
 echo "key:>$key<; value:>$value<"
done <<END
key1=value1
key2=value2
key3=
=value3
foo

key4=value4=value5=value6
END

outputs

key:>key1<; value:>value1<
key:>key2<; value:>value2<
empty value on line 3
missing key on line 4
empty value on line 5
missing key on line 6
key:>key4<; value:>value4=value5=value6<

Given this file as input:

key1=value1
key2=value2
key3=
=value3
key4=value4

We can use = as a field separator for awk:

$ awk -F= '!($1 && $2 && NF==2) print "File failed validation on line " NR; exit 1 print $1, $2 ' input
key1 value1
key2 value2
File failed validation on line 3

To throw validation error messages to standard error, the print statement can be modified, and to continue processing after an error is seen, change the exit statement to a next statement:

$ awk -F= '!($1 && $2 && NF==2) "cat 1>&2"; next print $1, $2 ' input
[stdout] key1 value1
[stdout] key2 value2
[stdout] key4 value4
[stderr] File failed validation on line 3
[stderr] File failed validation on line 4

Validation is done in three steps; if any of these criteria are not met the error is thrown and, in the first example, execution is aborted with an error-state exit code:

• 
  $1 - Ensure that there is (in the parlance of the input specification) a "key"


• 
  $2 - Ensure that there is (in the parlance of the input specification) a "value"


• 
  NF==2 - Ensure that there are only two fields; the aforementioned "key" and "value"