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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use case and command line arguments in shell script? Post 302507046 by methyl on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 03:54:51 PM
Old 03-22-2011
The "getopts" command assumes that you will be using standard unix command line syntax (like in your post #1).

What Operating System and version do you have?
What Shell are you using?

When you go the error message, what was in your shell script and what did you type to invoke the script?

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also please let me know what does 'abc' in 'while getopts abc opt' means...
The "abc" is the list of possible options (-a, -b , -c). The command line is parsed and each value is placed in turn into the environment variable $opt. If you supply three options on the command line the while loop executes three times (once for each option).
There is an extensive expanation in "man getopts".


The rest of you post means nothing to me.
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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