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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using arguments Post 302569753 by jsoper1 on Tuesday 1st of November 2011 03:53:39 PM
Old 11-01-2011
This is great, but there were a few tweaks. The final code for this one variable looks like this:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Shell script to pull primary ESA out of a file

FILENAME=/etc/motd   # No space in assignments

if [ $1 -eq 1 ]; then
  if [ "$2" = "GET" ]; then
    # Do work
    extPrimEsa= grep "Primary ESA" "$FILENAME"|cut -d\= -f2
    echo "$extPrimEsa"
  fi
fi

Thank you so much.

---------- Post updated at 01:53 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:45 AM ----------

Okay, this is my final final script that has all the extension variables accounted for and are being passed through SNMP to the server (Spectrum).

Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Shell script to pull primary ESA out of a file
# Define some stuff

FILENAME=/etc/motd

if [ "$1" = 1 ]; then
	extPrimEsa=grep "Primary ESA" "$FILENAME"|cut -d\= -f2
	echo "$extPrimEsa"

elif [ "$1" = 2 ]; then
	extSecEsa=grep "Secondary ESA" "$FILENAME"|cut -d\= -f2
	echo "$extSecEsa"
 	
elif [ "$1" = 3 ]; then
	extPrimCust=grep "Primary Customer" "$FILENAME"|cut -d\= -f2
	echo "$extPrimCust"

elif [ "$1" = 4 ]; then
	extPrimDBA=grep "Primary DBA" "$FILENAME"|cut -d\= -f2
	echo "$extPrimDBA"

elif [ "$1" = 5 ]; then
	extSysLoc=grep "System Location" "$FILENAME"|cut -d\= -f2
	echo "$extSysLoc"

elif [ "$1" = 6 ]; then
	extBusUnt=grep "Business Unit" "$FILENAME"|cut -d\= -f2
	echo "$extBusUnt"

elif [ "$1" = 7 ]; then
	extConsl=grep "Console" "$FILENAME"|cut -d\= -f2
	echo "$extConsl"

elif [ "$1" = 8 ]; then
	extSysTyp=grep "System Type" "$FILENAME"|cut -d\= -f2
	echo "$extSysTyp"

fi

 

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ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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