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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Importing a path/file into a bash script Post 302484951 by TFB on Monday 3rd of January 2011 07:54:02 PM
Old 01-03-2011
No, what I'm looking for is a way to import text from the command line when I run the script.

Here is what I'm trying to do.

Code:
#! /bin/bash

echo 'Where is the file located?'
read location

COUNT=1

while [ $COUNT -lt 7 ]; do
    exif -t 0x000$COUNT --remove $location -o $location    
    let COUNT=COUNT+1
done

This little script strips out the exif GPS data (so if I upload a picture online, I don't have to worry about someone showing up at my house).

It loops from 0x0001 to 0x0006 and removes them. It then overwrites the file.

The issue is I don't want to have to type out the file names since I can't get autocomplete to work in BASH. So instead of setting the location of the file with:

Code:
echo 'Where is the file located?'
read location

I could just use ./script.sh ~/Desktop/file.jpg and script.sh will know that ~/Desktop/file.jpg shall be the location variable.
 

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