1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hey need help with getopts again. i am using getopts to read my command line options and arguments. i can manage to do for options that have only one argument e.g srcipt_name -f 3 i am able to use getopts to do this but i am having problems two accept more than two agruments e.g.... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello there I am back with more questions (sorry it is been quite a while since I had done scripting). I had tried the search function to search for the threads that might have an answer to my question, but I could not find it, so I had decided to post it. I had created the scripts below in ksh... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

is there a better way to check if all args are set??? while getopts h:p:u: opt do case "$opt" in h) host="$OPTARG";; p) port="$OPTARG";; u) user="$OPTARG";; \?) echo >&2 \ "usage: $0 -h host -p port -u user" exit 1;; esac done ... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i have part of the scripts below ,getopt for -h or ? not working for me. can anybody tell me if this sytax right or wrong. #!/usr/bin/ksh program=$(basename $0) ##################################################################################### function usageerr { RC=1 ... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

could anyone please tell me what this will automatically set my variable all=True.... #!/bin/sh all=FALSE while getopts a: option do case "option" in a) all=TRUE;; /?) echo "...... " exit 1;; esac done if then echo "true" else echo "false" (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to use the finction getopts in script. From what I understand this can be an example for using: while getopt "p:rvt:" do case p) echo "$OPTARG" ;; r) echo... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Suppose I have a code below . while getopts a: opt do case $opt in a) app_name="$OPTARG";; *) echo "$opt is an invalid option"; exit 1;; ?) echo "The value of $OPTARG is an invalid option"; exit 1;; esac done Could anyone please tell me in which case my... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am writing a script to pass the getopts argument to the function which I have. But it as soon as I execute the script, the argument is taking it as blank. I tried using multiple way to check but its not working. Can someone please let me know what wrong in this code. function1()... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. Can somebody please show me an example of how to use getopts to assign a variable if it's been passed into the script but to set a default if no value has been passed in? And also how to handle a param with multiple values ... so a sub parse (can I use a function for this?)? Here's my code... (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

There are many places where I can see the syntax description for optargs, which, usually boils down to this: getopts OPTSTRING VARNAME where: OPTSTRING tells getopts which options to expect and where to expect arguments VARNAME tells getopts which shell-variable to use for option reporting... (2 Replies)