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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Building command line parameters of arbitrary length Post 302146236 by cmcnorgan on Monday 19th of November 2007 02:41:04 PM
Old 11-19-2007
Building command line parameters of arbitrary length
I couldn't find an existing thread that addressed this question, so hopefully this isn't redundant with anything previously posted. Here goes:

I am writing a C-Shell script that runs a program that takes an arbitrary number of parameters:

myprog -a file1 \
-b file2 \
-c file3 ... \
-n fileN \
-operation "a+b+c+...+n"

The files on which myprog operates are in subdirectories: 01/01.ext, 02/02.ext, ... etc.

Since the filenames happen to match the directory names, I would like to be able to pass the script an arbitrary number of directories (in practice, there will be fewer than 26, so there is no concern with running out of "-x" tags). The script would then construct the argument list for myprog so that
myscript.sh 01 02 03 ... 12
would expand into:
myprog -a 01/01.ext -b 02/02.ext ... -k 11/11.ext -l 12/12.ext \
-operation "a+b+c+...+k+l"

Is there a straightforward way to do this?
 

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