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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Building command line parameters of arbitrary length Post 302146274 by Smiling Dragon on Monday 19th of November 2007 10:57:13 PM
Old 11-19-2007
Java

untested but it should get you pretty close
Code:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -gt 26 ]
then
   echo "Too many args!"
   exit 1
fi

letters="a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z"
cli="myprog"
count=1
operation=""
for argument in $*
do
   count=`expr $count + 1`
   letter=`echo $letters | head +$count | tail -1`
   cli="$cli -$letter ${argument}/${argument}.ext"
   if [ -z "$operation" ]
   then
      operation=$letter
   else
      operation="${operation}+${letter}"
   fi
done
cli="$cli -operation \"$operation\""
$cli

 

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