OPTARG(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual OPTARG(3P)PROLOG
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NAME
optarg, opterr, optind, optopt -- options parsing variables
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
extern char *optarg;
extern int opterr, optind, optopt;
DESCRIPTION
Refer to getopt().
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of
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event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Stan-
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NAME
pathconf -- get configurable pathname variables
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
long pathconf(const char *path, int name);
DESCRIPTION
Refer to fpathconf().
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Stan-
dard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source
files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
IEEE /The Open Group 2013 PATHCONF(3P)
Hello Friends,
I need to pass arguments to a shell scripts. but for this i need to take the arguments only if they are supplied to the script as arguments.
Like :
Prompt > scriptname -d device_cd -s message
so how do i capture these arguments ?> i think we have to use optarg.but i dont... (5 Replies)
Hi
I am sorry if my query is too simple ......
Can anybody explain the usage of optargs in shell script with options having arguments associated with them.
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Hi
I'm learning how to add in programm another option by command line.
For example in the "my_prog" i want to add a " -k " option and then write a number.
I mean:
my_prog -k 50
and the i should use the number 50.
I'm reading about getopt_long and optarg, and what i have done in the code... (0 Replies)
Hi I have below code in one of my shell script:
if ; then fail $USAGE; fi
while getopts hz:r:t:dz: o
do
case "$o" in
h) echo $USAGE ; exit 0;;
r) export REQ_ID="$OPTARG";;
t) TIMESPAN="$OPTARG";;
d) detail="true";;
) ... (0 Replies)
Hello i'm writing some analyzing script and i'm giving to my program these parameters, for example:
./procinfo -r tmpfile sh -c "cat tmpfile"
where -r is proccessed in getopts and it takes an argument by OPTARG..
The thing is I need to save this part to some variable:
sh -c "cat tmpfile"... (4 Replies)
Hi there,
I hope, that I do not open an thread, that is already existing, but I didn't found something matching with my problem while searching for problems with "getopts"
My problem ist, that I'm taking arguments from commandline into my script with getopts, I've an flag -s, after that there... (2 Replies)
here is the code
echo begin
while getopts 1:2:3:4: mode
do
case $mode in
1)echo "You have chosen mode1"
case $OPTARG in
a) echo "User Specified Date Range"
rangelist.sh ;;
b) echo "user specified month and year";;
?) echo "Default, Current... (4 Replies)
EDIT: -- SOLVED --
Heyas,
Getting used to optargs, but by far not understanding it.
So i have that script that shall be 'changeable', trying to use the passed arguments to modify the script visuals.
Passing:
browser -t test -d sect $HOME
Where -t should change the title,
and -d... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I want to capture space as well from the argument
eg:
script.ksh -m "Message from xyz" -e "email@xyz.com"
script.ksh -m 'Message from xyz' -e 'email@xyz.com'
I am parsing using getopts, but for option "m" OPTARG is returning only "Message".
Please use code tags next time for... (9 Replies)