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05-20-2010

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Passing options into a script

Afternoon all,

I have been writing a script to do some selects on a table dependent on what options are selected when the script is run:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

set -x
set -m

if [ "$1" = "" ]
then
   echo "usage: msglog.ksh -da <date and time> -i <interface> -m <msg> -di <direction> -mi <MIR>"
   exit 1
fi
while getopts "da:i:m:di:s:mi:" opt;do
    case $opt in
         da ) dtandtm="$OPTARG";;
         i ) interface="$OPTARG";;
         m ) msg="$OPTARG";;
         di ) direction="$OPTARG";;
         mi ) MIR="$OPTARG";;
    esac
done

Unfortunately it appears that if you use more than one flag the the second option is just passed to the first variable instead of creating a second.

Output of debug:

./msglogcount.ksh -i XCLR -di O
+ set -m
+ [ -i = ]
+ getopts da:i:m:di:s:mi: opt
+ interface=XCLR
+ getopts da:i:m:di:s:mi: opt
+ getopts da:i:m:di:s:mi: opt
+ interface=O
+ getopts da:i:m:di:s:mi: opt

As you can see instead of direction being set to O, it just overwrites the interface variable.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Chris

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