1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Is there a way to get the command line arguments. I am using getopt(3) but if the arguments are more than one for a particular option than it just ignores the second argument. For eg ./a.out -x abc def now abd will be got with -x using getopt "( x : )" and string abc\0def will get stored... (7 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to parse the command line argument to look for '@' sign and the following with '.'. In my shell script one of the argument passed is email address. I want to parse this email address to look for correct format. rmjoe123@hotmail.com has '@' sign and followed by a '.' to be more... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Im very new to PERL and as a project to work on developing my skills at PERL Im trying to parse poker hands. Ive tried many methods however I cant get the last step. $yourfile= 'FILENAME';#poker hands to parse open (FILE, "$yourfile") or die $!; @lines = <FILE>; for (@lines) ... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Looking for a little help parsing some command line arguments in a bash script I am working on, this is probably fairly basic to most, but I do not have much experience with it. At the command line, when the script is run, I need to make sure the argument passed is a file, it exists in the... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a simple script that builds a complex program call which passes a number of parameters to the program. I'm trying to enhance the script to include the value of the command line parameter in the name of a file being created. The problem I'm having is that the parameter may include a forward... (11 Replies)

6. Programming

Hi, I've a python script called aaa.py and passing an command line option " -a" to the script like, ./aaa.py -a & Inside the script if the -a option is given I do some operation if not something else. code looks like ./aaa.py -a . . if options.a ---some operation--- if not options.a... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to call subroutines in perl like: sub temp { ---- some code ----- } temp(-switchName, value1, --switchName2, value2) Like i know getoptions::Long is there for command line switches type arguments. So i want to know for subroutine type arguments. (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all I need to put a command line parser together to parse numeric fields and ranges passed to a script. I'm looking for a bash function that is as elegant and simple as possible. So the input would be of the following form - 1,2,8-12 This would return - 1,2,8,9,10,11,12 Input can... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I would like to take a fasta file formated like >0001 agttcgaggtcagaatt >0002 agttcgag >0003 ggtaacctga and use command line perl to move the all sample gt 8 in length to a new file. the result would be >0001 agttcgaggtcagaatt >0003 ggtaacctga cat ${sample}.fasta | perl -lane... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, How do I parse a XML with below contents <saw:user name="mbussey@xyz.com" /> <saw:user name="kimmy.chan@pqr.com" /> <saw:user name="chudgins@gmail.com" /> and retrieve below output ? mbussey@xyz.com kimmy.chan@pqr.com chudgins@gmail.com ... (17 Replies)