Hi all,
In windows script, passing arguments can be done in both "call by value" and
"call by reference". Refer
http://www.commandline.co.uk/lib/treeview/index.php
Can we have call by reference in unix too?
Thanks in adavance,
Sonal. (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a master BASH shell script where I define a bunch of variables:
$var1=why
$var2=is
$var3=(this so hard)
I would then like to call another shell script and pass these variables to it:
$script2 $var1 $var2 $var3
This works fine for var1 and var2. However, var3 is an array,... (9 Replies)
Hello,
Please tell me if there is a better way to get the number of elements from an array that is passed to a function.
This is what works on Solaris 8 (ksh) but it looks odd:
loop_array() {
array_name=$2
b1='\${\#'
b2='}'
nr_elements=`eval echo... (6 Replies)
Hi experts,
I am here again with another Issue.
I need to pass the array as parameter / argument to another script.
I tried it as follows . ( I got this idea from the link )
$ cat test1.sh
#! /usr/bin/ksh
set -a arr1
echo "...In Test1...."
arr1="APPS_DEV"
arr1="TEST_DEV"
echo... (16 Replies)
Let me know if there is a way to pass array to a funtion in ksh script.
function isPresent
{
typeset member
member=$1
dbList=$2
echo '$1:' $1
echo '$2' $dbList
The array will be at the second position....something like this
isPresent 12 <array>
if
then
echo... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a script which is using a text file as I/P.
I want a code where it reads n lines from this file and pass the parameters to a function and now this script should run in such a way where a function can be called in parallel with different parameters. Please find below my script, it... (1 Reply)
I have a question on how can I assign a output of a function to a variable which is executed in background.
Here is my example
$ cat sample_program.sh
#!/bin/ksh
exec_func () {
sleep 1
v=`expr $1 + 100`
print $v
}
export OUT_ARR
date
for i in 1 2
do
OUT_ARR=`exec_func $i` &... (1 Reply)
Hi All
I have multiple arrays like below.
set -A val1 1 2 4 5
set -A val2 a b c d
.
.
.
Now i would like to pass the individual arrays one by one to a function and display/ do some action.
Note : I am using ksh
Can you please advise any solution...
Thanks in advance. (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am creating filesystem for block device, but I want to pass array value one by one acording to block device count.
$tmp1 = block device count 3
$blockdevice =
So I want to first pass sdb1 alone in loop, how to take only block device seprately from $blockdevice array. (1 Reply)
Hello,
I think there's an easier way to do this but can't seem to recall but given an array of animals and an initial value is a random index in the array, here it's 3.
3,4,5,4,3,2,1,0,1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1,0... inifinite repeat
a quick brute force solution i came up with was two functions, i... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: f77hack
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
xsetcommand
XSetCommand(3X11) MIT X11R4 XSetCommand(3X11)Name
XSetCommand, XGetCommand - set or read a window's WM_COMMAND property
Syntax
XSetCommand(display, w, argv, argc)
Display *display;
Window w;
char **argv;
int argc;
Status XGetCommand(display, w, argv_return, argc_return)
Display *display;
Window w;
char ***argv_return;
int *argc_return;
Arguments
argc Specifies the number of arguments.
argc_return
Returns the number of arguments returned.
argv Specifies the application's argument list.
argv_return
Returns the application's argument list.
display Specifies the connection to the X server.
w Specifies the window.
Description
The function sets the command and arguments used to invoke the application. (Typically, argv is the argv array of your main program.)
can generate and errors.
The function reads the WM_COMMAND property from the specified window and returns a string list. If the WM_COMMAND property exists, it is
of type STRING and format 8. If sufficient memory can be allocated to contain the string list, fills in the argv_return and argc_return
arguments and returns a non-zero status. Otherwise, it returns a zero status. To free the memory allocated to the string list, use
Properties
WM_COMMAND
The command and arguments, separated by ASCII nulls, used to invoke the application.
Diagnostics
The server failed to allocate the requested resource or server memory.
A value for a Window argument does not name a defined Window.
See AlsoXAllocClassHint(3X11), XAllocIconSize(3X11), XAllocSizeHints(3X11), XAllocWMHints(3X11), XSetTransientForHint(3X11), XSetTextProp-
erty(3X11), XSetWMClientMachine(3X11), XSetWMColormapWindows(3X11), XSetWMIconName(3X11), XSetWMName(3X11), XSetWMProperties(3X11), XSetWM-
Protocols(3X11), XStringListToTextProperty(3X11)
X Window System: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys
XSetCommand(3X11)