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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing Arguments in Shell Scripts Post 302294613 by kev_1234 on Thursday 5th of March 2009 01:48:55 PM
Old 03-05-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson

To make things simpler, forget about long options, and stick to single letters. This just deals with -s; add others whenever you like.
Code:
while getopts s:f:vVh opt
do
  case $opt in
    s) searchphrase=$OPTARG ;;
    ## add other options here
  esac
done
shift $(( $OPTIND - 1 ))

wget  -t1  -E -e robots=off -awGet.log -T 200 -H -Priserless -O mylist1.html \
   -U "Mozilla" "http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=${searchphrase}&btnG=Search"

I know the above problem code helped me solve my problem but I forgot to mention about the feature which I wanted to implement aswell.......

which was the search phrase should be contained in double quotes if it contains spaces or have each space preceded by a backslash.

So basically echo the user with a error when he searches that has space between it and that he should search with quotes where necessary.....

It will be great help Chris if you could help me out with this one last time....

Cheers
kev
 

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cpanplus::shell

CPANPLUS::Shell(3pm)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				      CPANPLUS::Shell(3pm)

NAME

       CPANPLUS::Shell

SYNOPSIS

	   use CPANPLUS::Shell; 	    # load the shell indicated by your
					    # config -- defaults to
					    # CPANPLUS::Shell::Default

	   use CPANPLUS::Shell qw[Classic]  # load CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic;

	   my $ui      = CPANPLUS::Shell->new();
	   my $name    = $ui->which;	    # Find out what shell you loaded

	   $ui->shell;			    # run the ui shell

DESCRIPTION

       This module is the generic loading (and base class) for all "CPANPLUS" shells. Through this module you can load any installed "CPANPLUS"
       shell.

       Just about all the functionality is provided by the shell that you have loaded, and not by this class (which merely functions as a generic
       loading class), so please consult the documentation of your shell of choice.

BUG REPORTS

       Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>.

AUTHOR

       This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic, cpanp

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