04-13-2010
$OPTARG changes commandline input
Hi there,
I hope, that I do not open an thread, that is already existing, but I didn't found something matching with my problem while searching for problems with "getopts"
My problem ist, that I'm taking arguments from commandline into my script with getopts, I've an flag -s, after that there comes an path to an *.sql File.
e.g. script.sh -s /batch/alpha/database/create_db.sql
This is no problem, but I want to have it more save, want, that the custumer must exactly hit ONE file, even, if he/she is using joker like *.
Therefore I wanted to count the hits, and if there is more than 1 hit, the script should terminate.
But if I type for example: ./script.sh -s /test/test*.sql and in the directory are the files "test.sql" and "test1.sql" I will not find the term "/test/test*.sql" in $OPTARG but "/test/test1.sql" !!!
Is there any chance, perhaps some kind of quoting, that I can get what I typed in on the commandline?? Only then I could check, if the term produces more than one matchings.
Thank you for the help and excuse my worse English, as I'm coming from Germany.
So long,
Thomas
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