See the two values main takes? They contain your commandline arguments. argv is an array of strings containing the arguments, and argc tells you how many strings it has in it. In nearly all cases, the first argument is the name the program was run with, and all the ones after it are the ones you want.
Were you to run your program with my_c_program a b c d, then the contents of argv[] would be { "my_c_program", "a", "b", "c", "d", NULL}, and the value of argc would be 5.
So, run the program like
and that string will be found in argv[1].
Hi,
I have two shell variables $t1 and $t2 which I need to pass to a function in a shell script. The function will do some computation with those two variables and echo the resultant. But I do not know how to pass teh arguments.
The function written is
f1()
{......
........
}
What should... (3 Replies)
I want to pass an array in my function, And my function will be changing the elements of the array in the fuction, but it should not affect the values in my array variable of main function (1 Reply)
Hi
I need to pass an array to Awk script from Shell. Can you please tell how to do it? How to pass this array add_ct_arr to an awk script or access it in awk?
i=1
while ;
do
add_ct_arr=$(echo ${adda_count} | awk -v i=$i -F" " '{print $i;}')
echo ${add_ct_arr}
... (1 Reply)
hi,
I have a array say
SAP_ARRAY="s1.txt"
SAP_ARRAY="s2.txt"
how can i pass this full array to a function.
here is the sample code i am using..
CHECK_NO_FILES()
{
FARRAY=$1
echo "FARRAY = $FARRAY"
echo "FARRAY = $FARRAY"
............... (5 Replies)
Hi, guys
I just wanted to sort the elements of an array ascendingly.
I know the following code does work well:
array=(13 435 8 23 100)
for i in {0..4}
do
j=$((i+1))
while ]
do
if } -le ${array} ]]
then :
else
min=${array}
${array}=${array}
${array}=$min
fi... (5 Replies)
How do i pass an array from test4.sh to a function in another shell script test5.sh, basically i am sourcing the test5.sh in test4.sh and printing the contents, but not working below are my trial scripts, please help, thank you.
#!/bin/bash
# /usr/local/dw/archive/test5.sh
print_array()
{... (5 Replies)
There are two parts to this. In the first part I need to read a list of files from a directory and split it into 4 arrays. I have done that with the following code,
# collect list of file names
STATS_INPUT_FILENAMES=($(ls './'$SET'/'$FOLD'/'*'in.txt'))
# get number of files... (8 Replies)
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)
Dear Friends,
Please help me on this
my script name is send.csh
In this i have written the statement like this
set args = ( city state country price )
I want to pass this array to another c shell called receiver.csh. and i want to use it in this c shell
or
how to pass to... (2 Replies)
I'm able to read & print an array in varaible called "filelist"
I need to pass this array variable to a function called verify() and then read and loop through the passed array inside the function.
Unfortunately it does not print the entire array from inside the funstion's loop.
#/bin/ksh... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
execv
execl(3) Library Functions Manual execl(3)Name
execl, execv, execle, execlp, execvp, exect, environ - execute a file
Syntax
execl(name, arg0, arg1, ..., argn, (char *)0)
char *name, *arg0, *arg1, ..., *argn;
execv(name, argv)
char *name, *argv[];
execle(name, arg0, arg1, ..., argn, (char *)0, envp)
char *name, *arg0, *arg1, ..., *argn, *envp[];
execlp(file, arg0, arg1, ..., argn, (char *)0)
char *file, *arg0, *arg1, ..., *argn;
execvp(file,argv)
char *file, *argv[];
exect(name, argv, envp)
char *name, *argv[], *envp[];
extern char **environ;
Description
These routines provide various interfaces to the system call. Refer to for a description of their properties; only brief descriptions are
provided here.
In all their forms, these calls overlay the calling process with the named file, then transfer to the entry point of the core image of the
file. There can be no return from a successful exec. The calling core image is lost.
The name argument is a pointer to the name of the file to be executed. The pointers arg[0], arg[1] ... address null-terminated strings.
Conventionally arg[0] is the name of the file.
Two interfaces are available. is useful when a known file with known arguments is being called; the arguments to are the character strings
constituting the file and the arguments; the first argument is conventionally the same as the file name (or its last component). A 0 argu-
ment must end the argument list.
The version is useful when the number of arguments is unknown in advance. The arguments to are the name of the file to be executed and a
vector of strings containing the arguments. The last argument string must be followed by a 0 pointer.
The version is used when the executed file is to be manipulated with The program is forced to single step a single instruction giving the
parent an opportunity to manipulate its state. On VAX-11 machines, this is done by setting the trace bit in the process status longword.
When a C program is executed, it is called as follows:
main(argc, argv, envp)
int argc;
char **argv, **envp;
where argc is the argument count and argv is an array of character pointers to the arguments themselves. As indicated, argc is convention-
ally at least one and the first member of the array points to a string containing the name of the file.
The argv is directly usable in another because argv[argc] is 0.
The envp is a pointer to an array of strings that constitute the environment of the process. Each string consists of a name, an "=", and a
null-terminated value. The array of pointers is terminated by a null pointer. The shell passes an environment entry for each global shell
variable defined when the program is called. See for some conventionally used names. The C run-time start-off routine places a copy of
envp in the global cell which is used by and to pass the environment to any subprograms executed by the current program.
The and routines are called with the same arguments as and but duplicate the shell's actions in searching for an executable file in a list
of directories. The directory list is obtained from the environment.
Restrictions
If is called to execute a file that turns out to be a shell command file, and if it is impossible to execute the shell, the values of
argv[0] and argv[-1] will be modified before return.
Diagnostics
If the file cannot be found, if it is not executable, if it does not start with a valid magic number if maximum memory is exceeded, or if
the arguments require too much space, a return constitutes the diagnostic; the return value is -1. For further information, see Even for
the super-user, at least one of the execute-permission bits must be set for a file to be executed.
Files
/bin/sh Shell, invoked if command file found by execlp or execvp
See Alsocsh(1), execve(2), fork(2), environ(7)
RISC execl(3)