Let's say I want to print the arguments $4 till $#, how can I do this?
$# contains the number of arguments
$@ contain all the arguments as string
What i need is something like
The first 3 arguments are used as options for other things....
Thanks in advance!
Hi All,
file_1.txt contains
aaa bbbb hhhh
vvvvv mmmmm iiiii
What i want is to search for the first coloumn of each line using awk.i.e as below:
awk '/aaa/ {printf(<>)}' file_1.txt
The print part (<>) should contain all the values(or coloumns ) in the particular line(here it... (8 Replies)
Hello, I was wondering if it were possible to call arguments passed to a script using a variable.
For example:
sh script.sh yes no good bad
x=$#
while
do
echo (last argument, then second last etc until first argument)
let x=($x-1)
done
should print out
bad
good
no (4 Replies)
The following bash script does not work because the java/groovy code always thinks there are four arguments even if there are only 1 or 2. As you can see from my hideous backslashes, I am using cygwin bash on windows.
export... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I want to pass few dynamic arguments to shell script. The number of arguments differ each time I call the script.
I want to print the arguments using the for loop as below. But not working out.
for (( i=1; i<=$#; i++ ))
do
echo $"($i)"
done
/bin/sh test.sh arg1 arg2 arg3
... (1 Reply)
i have this variable:
varT="1--2--3--5"
i want to use awk to print field 3 from this variable. i dont want to do the "echo $varT".
but here's my awk code:
awk -v valA="$varT" "BEGIN {print valA}"
this prints the entire line. i feel like i'm so close to getting what i want. i... (4 Replies)
Hey guys,
I'm new to shell scripting and I'm trying to write a script that takes user input and copies the specified columns from a data file to a new one. In order to account for the possibility of a variable number of columns to copy I wrote a loop that encodes the user's choices in an array... (16 Replies)
I am using echo in bash. Have created a function prargv which takes a number of arguments.
Example:
prargv "-e" "--examples"
Inside prargv, I want to print all the arguments using echo
echo "$@"
This returns
--examples
rather than
-e --examples"
This problem can be fixed... (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have a file "abc.dat" in below format:
FILE_PATH||||$F_PATH
TABLE_LIST||||a|b|c
SYST_NM||||${SRC_SYST}
Now I am trying to read the above file and want to print the value for above dollar variables F_PATH and SRC_SYST. The problem is it's reading the dollar variables as... (5 Replies)
Hello Community!
Let's say that we have some script which counts its arguments number:
arguments_count.sh:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Number of arguments="$#and some test script:
test.sh:
#!/bin/sh
my_args="1 2 3 '4 5' 6"
echo "Count of arguments when using my_args:"
./arguments_count.sh $my_args... (12 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
print
print(1) User Commands print(1)NAME
print - shell built-in function to output characters to the screen or window
SYNOPSIS
ksh
print [ -Rnprsu [n]] [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
ksh
The shell output mechanism. With no flags or with flag - or -, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1).
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-n suppresses new-line from being added to the output.
-R
-r (raw mode) ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option will print all subsequent arguments and options other than
-n.
-p causes the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output.
-s causes the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output.
-u [ n ] flag can be used to specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the output will be placed. The default is 1.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful operation.
>0 Output file is not open for writing.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO echo(1), ksh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 print(1)