11-01-2008
Try these..
Consider your script name is "testing.sh".
Inside the Script you are calculating some information about the current directory..
$ ls -lrt /home
$ # do some operation with the directory
You can pass an argument from the user by
1) consider the user is having permission to trigger the script, use
$ testing.sh "/home"
the user can give like this also
$ testing.sh /home
Insdie the script you can have retrieve the argument by
$ ls -lrt $1
$ # do some operation with the directory
2) Suppose user is not triggering the script. you have to get the input by
$ testing.sh
Inside the script..
$ #!/bin/sh
$ echo -n 'what is the value? '
$ read VALUE
$ ls -lrt $VALUE
$ # do some operation with the directory
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ipescript
IPESCRIPT(1) General Commands Manual IPESCRIPT(1)
NAME
ipescript - Run an Ipe script (written in Lua)
SYNOPSIS
ipescript script { arguments }
DESCRIPTION
ipescript runs an Ipe script written in Lua. The Ipe bindings are automatically available in the script. Ipescript looks for the script
in any of the script directories.
The script argument should not contain the .lua extension.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
ipescript respects the following environment variables:
IPELATEXDIR
the directory where ipetoipe runs Pdflatex.
IPESCRIPTS a list of directories where Ipescript will look for
scripts. When this variable is not set, Ipe searches first the current directory, then ~/.ipe/scripts, and finally the system-wide
Ipe script directory. When this variable is set, it should contain a list of directories, separated by semicolons. A single under-
score is replaced by the system-wide Ipe script directory.
IPEDEBUG
set this to 1 for debugging output from ipescript.
AUTHOR
Otfried Cheong
REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/bugzilla.html
SEE ALSO
Ipe is documented fully in The Ipe Manual, which is available online at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/manual/manual.html .
August 28, 2011 IPESCRIPT(1)