In a script , i would like to check if the argument ( $1, $2 inside the script) contain wildcard (*,? etc). how do i do it?
> script_name arg1 arg*
$1 (arg1) does not contain wildcard, but $2 (arg* )contains wildcard. how can i tell in script?
i need to do this is because :
if arg1... (3 Replies)
why i can't use this command:
echo $arg | cut -c 1,2 | read remainArg or
echo $arg | cut -c 1,2 | read $remainArg
so that the result will be assign to remainArg.
Anyway to do this? :) (1 Reply)
There is an error when i am trying to use the shift command in this way:
($1 = -d, $2 = 123, $3 = -c etc etc)
for $arg in $@
do
case $arg in
"-d") shift; (so that the $2 will become the $arg now)
(and while it loop the 2nd time,)
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I'm looking to create a Korn Shell script that, if given a directory as an arg, will calc bytes used by all files in the given directory and display that info. If no command line arg is given the program is to calc and display the bytes used by all the files in the pwd.
Example output:
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Hi,
Please guide to pass an array as a arg to a script...
for example,
I have a script small.sh to find the small no of given arg as below...
#! /bin/sh
# this script is for finding the small number
set -A arr_no_updates
small=$1
i=1
for arr in $@
do
if (3 Replies)
Hi everyone.
I am trying to develop my own shell,and i am in the part of redirection.
let's say the user gives as input
cat test > test2
in the array of arguments i want to keep only arg=cat,arg=test.
">" token is not an input file so cat cannot worka and test2 is output.how can i remove > and... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm trying to search through 30,000 files in 1 directory, and am getting the "arg list too long" error. I've searched this forum and have been playing around with xargs and can't get that to work either. I'm using ksh on Solaris.
Here's my original code:
nawk "/Nov 21/{_=2}_&&_--"... (14 Replies)
Hey everyone,
I need to write a script that will display the number of the argument before displaying the argument itself. Here's what I have so far:
for arg in "$@"
do
echo $#:$arg
done
This returns the sum of all arguments preceding the arguments themselves.
$(script) a b c
3:a... (1 Reply)