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07-19-2005

sveera

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Usage of optarg

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 know exact usage.

Can any one please help?

Thanks in advance
Veera

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