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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help needed passing string to command Post 302289990 by otheus on Saturday 21st of February 2009 05:53:13 AM
Old 02-21-2009
Are you writing the "nu" script? And you are trying to figure out how to handle default arguments? is that correct?
 

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DELLOFIG(3)						      MBK PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS						       DELLOFIG(3)

NAME
dellofig - delete and free a logical figure ORIGIN
This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Universite Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/ E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr SYNOPSYS
#include "mlo.h" int dellofig(figname) char *figname; PARAMETER
figname Name of the figure to be deleted DESCRIPTION
dellofig deletes the figure called figname from the list of logical figure in memory. All the lists of elements belonging to the figure are also deleted and freed. RETURN VALUE
dellofig returns 1 if the figure was delete, and 0 if no figure called figname was present in memory. EXAMPLE
#include "mlo.h" void delete_na2_y() { if (dellofig("na2_y")) (void)fputs("deleted na2_y successfully", stdout); else (void)fputs("na2_y not present in ram !", stdout); } SEE ALSO
mbk(1), lofig(3), addlofig(3), getlofig(3), loadlofig(3), savelofig(3), flattenlofig(3), rflattenlofig(3). BUG REPORT
This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. ASIM
/LIP6 October 1, 1997 DELLOFIG(3)
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