Need some help with Linux Bash Scripting (quickstart + random select account)

[mbmaster 26]

Hi Dreambuddy's

I try to select a random account, and then start quickstart with this account:

#! /bin/bash

## Variables
SELECT_FILE="/home/martijn/Desktop/Accounts/Accounts.sh"

## START SELECTING ONE OF THE CHOICES
CHOICES=`cat "$SELECT_FILE"`
#echo "$CHOICES"
CHOSEN=`echo "$CHOICES" | sort -R | sed 1q`
echo "$CHOSEN"

## RUN QUICKSTART WITH CHOSEN ACCOUNT
java -jar /home/martijn/DreamBot/BotData/client.jar -account "echo "$CHOSEN"" -proxy "Proxy 1" -script "{name}" -params {name}

The 'echo "$CHOSEN"' displays the name of the random chosen account in the terminal, but quickstart isn't loading with it. (I have already double checked whether all accounts are in the account manager of Dreambot ). Any ideas?

[Pandemic 2711]

You don't need to use echo to print that variable, and by doing so you were actually un-quoting, messing up the whole thing.

This worked for me (cleaned it up a little bit):

#!/bin/bash

## Variables
SELECT_FILE="$HOME/Desktop/Accounts/Accounts.sh"

## START SELECTING ONE OF THE CHOICES
CHOSEN=$(sort -R < "$SELECT_FILE" | sed 1q)
echo "$CHOSEN"

## RUN QUICKSTART WITH CHOSEN ACCOUNT
java -jar ~/DreamBot/BotData/client.jar -account "$CHOSEN" -proxy "Proxy 1" -script "{name}" -params {name}

 

[mbmaster 26]

10 hours ago, Pandemic said:

You don't need to use echo to print that variable, and by doing so you were actually un-quoting, messing up the whole thing.

This worked for me (cleaned it up a little bit):

#!/bin/bash

## Variables
SELECT_FILE="$HOME/Desktop/Accounts/Accounts.sh"

## START SELECTING ONE OF THE CHOICES
CHOSEN=$(sort -R < "$SELECT_FILE" | sed 1q)
echo "$CHOSEN"

## RUN QUICKSTART WITH CHOSEN ACCOUNT
java -jar ~/DreamBot/BotData/client.jar -account "$CHOSEN" -proxy "Proxy 1" -script "{name}" -params {name}

 

Hi @Pandemic, Thanks for cleaning up my script a bit . But still this isn't working for me. 

#!/bin/bash

## Variables
SELECT_FILE="$HOME/Desktop/Accounts/Accounts.sh"

## START SELECTING ONE OF THE CHOICES
CHOSEN=$(sort -R < "$SELECT_FILE" | sed 1q)
echo "$CHOSEN"

## RUN QUICKSTART WITH CHOSEN ACCOUNT
java -jar ~/DreamBot/BotData/client.jar -account "$CHOSEN" -proxy "Proxy 1" -script "# Woodcutting"

In the terminal you see the echo of the CHOSEN account. But when it runs quickstart, it doesn't load it. Is it possible to load the variable first ($CHOSEN), then run the quickstart command?

Because I think with this command the quickstart command is just looking for the account named: $CHOSEN and not filling in the name of the variable $CHOSEN before starting the command.