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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting use several inputs as arguments in my script Post 302259532 by Christoph Spohr on Tuesday 18th of November 2008 11:00:30 AM
Old 11-18-2008
You can test, if the script was called with an argument:

[[ -z "$@" ]] && printf "No input\n" || printf "Input: %q\n" "$@"

Which means: if the length of the arguments ( $@) is zero (-z) then print "No input" else print the string in escaped form. I don't not, what you want to achieve, but if you try to escape strings, check the %q option of printf.

If you call the testscript this way:

testscript "h's m"

it will give you:

Input: h\'s\ m
 

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NAME
installsieve - user utility for managing sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
installsieve DESCRIPTION
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