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
Code:
for i in $4_till_$#; do
#do something with $i
convert $i ~/$output
done
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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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]...
ksh93
print [-Renprs] [-f format] [-u fd] [string...]
DESCRIPTION
ksh
The shell output mechanism. When no options are specified, or when an option followed by ' a - is specified, or when just - is specified,
the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1).
ksh93
By default, print writes each string operand to standard output and appends a NEWLINE character.
Unless, the -r, -R, or -f option is speciifed, each character in each string operand is processed specially as follows:
a Alert character.
Backspace character.
c Terminate output without appending NEWLINE. The remaining string operands are ignored.
E Escape character (ASCII octal 033).
f FORM FEED character.
NEWLINE character.
Tab character.
v Vertical tab character.
\ Backslash character.
x The 8-bit character whose ASCII code is the 1-, 2-, or 3-digit octal number x.
OPTIONS
ksh
The following options are supported by ksh:
-n Suppresses new-line from being added to the output.
-r-R Raw mode. Ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option prints all subsequent arguments and options other than -n.
-p Cause the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output.
-s Cause the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output.
-u [ n ] Specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the output is placed. The default is 1.
ksh93
The following options are supported by ksh93:
-e Unless -f is specified, process sequences in each string operand as described above. This is the default behavior.
If both -e and -r are specified, the last one specified is the one that is used.
-f format Write the string arguments using the format string format and do not append a NEWLINE. See printf(1) for details on how to
specify format.
When the -f option is specified and there are more string operands than format specifiers, the format string is reprocessed
from the beginning. If there are fewer string operands than format specifiers, then outputting ends at the first unneeded for-
mat specifier.
-n Do not append a NEWLINE character to the output.
-p Write to the current co-process instead of standard output.
-r Do not process sequences in each string operand as described above.
-R
If both -e and -r are specified, the last one specified is the one that is used.
-s Write the output as an entry in the shell history file instead of standard output.
-u fd Write to file descriptor number fd instead of standard output. The default value is 1.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>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), ksh93(1), printf(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 27 Mar 2008 print(1)