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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing options to a bash script Post 302197365 by DeCoTwc on Wednesday 21st of May 2008 12:05:20 AM
Old 05-21-2008
Passing options to a bash script

I'm just not sure where to start looking into this. I want to be able to create switches for my script. Back in the day I'd make my scripts interactive...you know:

Code:
echo "what report do you want"
echo "A)boxes with errors"
echo "B)boxes with more than 5 errors"
echo "C)Service groups that have thrown errors"
read $1
if ...

but now that seems kind of amateurish. I'd rather have a script where errorreport.sh -c made a list of boxes, errorreport.sh -m listed boxes with multiple errors and so on.

I'm not asking anyone to give me a step by step on how to do this, I'd rather learn by doing, but I don't even know where to start. I've tried googling "adding switches to bash scripts" and the like, and I've been scanning my o'reiley books, but at quick glance I don't see what I'm looking for.

If anyone could tell me where I might at least start reading up on this I'd appreciate it.
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
bash(1) GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)
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