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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting New to shellscripting....need some help! Post 302172654 by TurboArkhan on Tuesday 4th of March 2008 11:20:56 AM
Old 03-04-2008
THanks for the reply......! but erm....

I literally just started shell scripting when I started this... so alot of what you posted is confusing me.... can you elaborate some? Im worried that since i used things like $1 and $2, its going to go haywire when its done w/ the multi utility. What if it needs to use $5 and $6 instead?....!

My C version was a while loop with an if/else chain inside it...I see thats whats happening here also Smilie

Let me pop on a unix server and check out the getopt manual... Im not at my linux computer right now...

thanks again ! Smilie

EDIT:
hmm im sort of seeing how this works.. based off the manual, and google!

When I get back to my Linux machine later... ill give it a whirl... but will it be something like


while getopts r:f:c: o
do case "$o" in
r) right.s ;;
f) findtext.s;;
c) count.s;;
?) *help like message*
esac
done


??

Im not seeing how I will get proper arguments passed to the scripts this way though....

Last edited by TurboArkhan; 03-04-2008 at 12:37 PM..
 

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