1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I have a question. Please help me to populate an array with the arguments passing to a Shell scripts. For example when I call "abc.sh a1 a2 a3" args (a1, a2, ...) recieved in an Array inside the abc.sh arr = a1 arr = a2 and so on... Thanks in advance, (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello ( sorry newbie question ) I don't understand something im trying to make simple alias that takes 1 arg but it don't gives me the desire result here is what I have : stlist | awk '{print "ls -l "$2}' now I want to translate it to alias that takes instead of the $2 one arg so I did : ... (4 Replies)

3. Programming

My program usage takes the form for example; $ theApp 2 "one or more words" i.e. 3 command line arguments; application name, an integer, some text My code includes the following 4 lines: int anInteger; char words; sscanf(argv, "%d", &anInteger); sscanf(argv, "%s", &message); Based... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to print command line arguments one per second. I have this while do echo "6" shift echo "5" shift echo "4" shift echo "3" shift echo "2" shift echo "1" shift done (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have this while loop and at the end I am trying to get it to tell me the last argument I entered. And with it like this all I get is the sentence with no value for $1. Now I tried moving done after the sentence and it printed the value of $1 after every number. I don't want that I just want... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey.. I've gotten inspired by another thread and used this: #!/usr/bin/bash args 2,5 $(<file.list) It works but I'll like the results separated into different files or back into the 'used'/original files, whatever is easiest. e.g. use fileA | args 2,5 > fileB or fileA and then do this to... (9 Replies)

7. AIX

Hello, On Aix 5.2, we changed the parameters tcp_keepinit, tcp_keepintvl and tcp_keepidle with the no command. tunrestore -R is present in inittab in the directory /etc/tunables we can clearly see the inclusion of parameters during reboot, including the file lastboot.log ... (0 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to write a simple shell script that will take certain arguments (numerical values) and plug each one into a nawk command. I thought I would need to use for args x y z but i get syntax errors: for args 16 1 3 25 31 41 do nawk -F, '{if($10==$ &&... (8 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Store args passed in array but not the first 2 args. # bash declare -a arr=("$@") s=$(IFS=, eval 'echo "${arr}"') echo "$s" output: sh array.sh 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,2,3,4,5,6 Desired output: sh array.sh 1 2 3 4 5 6 3,4,5,6 (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm using a while loop for a given command "bowtie2" with several parameters. mkdir clean paste <(ls --quote-name ./qc/sg_*_R1_val_1.fq.gz) <(ls --quote-name ./qc/sg_*_R2_val_2.fq.gz) |sed 's/"./-1 ./' | sed 's/gz"\t/gz\t -2 /' | sed 's/"//g' |\ while read args ; do ... (5 Replies)