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Operating Systems Solaris Special symbols in shell scripting Post 302277976 by vickylife on Monday 19th of January 2009 03:08:04 AM
Old 01-19-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ariean
I am new to unix shell scripting, i was going through the existing shell scripts but couldn't able to get enough information on below syntaxes,i mean the symbols $# & $? used in the if loop. what exactly are they? what is the inline meaning, Could you please throw some light.

Examples:

1)
if [ $# -eq 3 ]
then
numFiles=`cat $3 | wc -l | sed 's/ //g'`
#echo $numFiles
count=0
$# stores the count of command file arguments. This 'IF' check ensures that there should be exactly 3 command line arguments including the script name itself

Quote:
2) if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "File $line moved to archive on `date +%D`">>$logFile
#echo $'\n' >>$logFile
else
echo "File $line can not be deleted">>$logFile
fi
$? stores the status of last system call. $? -eq 0 means that the last command was successfully executed
 

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platform::shell

platform::shell(n)					       Tcl Bundled Packages						platform::shell(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This  package  allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
       requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of  the  running  shell
       this  is  not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
       32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will  actually  run  the  installed
       packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.

COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
	      This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.

KEYWORDS

       operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture

platform::shell 						       1.1.4							platform::shell(n)
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