07-17-2006
Vaildation of command line inputs
Hi,
I want to do the following validations in my script when my script gets 2 parameters as command line inputs.
My script expects 2 inputs : a -f option and a filename
If a filename is given as input without the -f option then I have to exit. If only -f option is given and no filename is given then also I have to exit.
Once I get both the inputs I have to check whether the file has read permissions or not.
Please provide me a snippet of code as of how to do this.
Thanks in advance
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