09-17-2008
thanks for your response! do you mean something like this? it's not quite working for me. i'm pretty new at this.
if [ $# == 3 ]; then
QUERY = "$QUERY update user set password=password('$2') where user='$1' and host='$3'"
elif [ $# == 2 ]; then
QUERY = "$QUERY update user set password=password('$2') where user='$1'"
else
echo "At a minimum, you must provide a user and password: chpass <user> <new password>"
fi
thanks.
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shift(1) User Commands shift(1)
NAME
shift - shell built-in function to traverse either a shell's argument list or a list of field-separated words
SYNOPSIS
sh
shift [n]
csh
shift [variable]
ksh
* shift [n]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The positional parameters from $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ... . If n is not given, it is assumed to be 1.
csh
The components of argv, or variable, if supplied, are shifted to the left, discarding the first component. It is an error for the variable
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ksh
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On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
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SEE ALSO
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