1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I've written a script (bgrep) for a more advanced grep command (& attached a cut down version below). I'm trying allow all grep options to be used, or in any combination. The script works fine if I type say bgrep -i -files product it will return a non-case sensitive list of matches for... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

All, I have a cron job script that receives several command line arguments. At some point if there are validation problems and the job cannot be run, it duplicates the entire command line into a temporary text file which is later executed as a script. Unfortunately when I pass the list of received... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a bash script on serverA, when i run the script on the server, it runs fine. the way to run the script is like this ./script "option1" Now i am trying to call it from local laptop using ssh command, my command is as the following ssh serverA ~/script "option1" and i got error... (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi! I have a python script that requires arguments and these arguments are file paths. This script works fine when executed like this: /my_python_script "file_path1" "file_path2" (i added quotes as some file names may have weird characters) the issue happens when i launch my python script... (14 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm pretty new to bash scripting and I've found myself writing things like this (and the same with even more nesting): if $CATEGORIES; then if $LABEL_SLOTS; then $pyth "$wd/texify_grammar.py" "$input" "$texfile" "--label-slots" "--categories" "$CATEGORY_LIST" ... (9 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Im trying to run zip shell command from an Oracle job, but this has limitations. This should take a few of explanaition,.. Oracle allows me to execute a command and then I can set up a fixed number of arguments. Ex: (summarizing in something like..): JOB DEFINITION job_name: test... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I need to pass comma seperated arguments to a perl script? It is like: Exect.pl -d GUI1,GUI2,GUI3 and I need to store these argsGUI1,GUI2,GUI3 in an array. can anyone suggest how to do that: (1 Reply)

8. Programming

Hi Am pretty new to C.. Am trying to pass the arguments from command line and use them in switch case statement.. i have tried the following #include <stdlib.h> main(int argc, char* argv) { int num=0; if ( argc == 2 ) num = argv; printf("%d is the num value",num); switch ( num ) ... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to be able to pass arguments to a php script if it is being piped: cat myphpscript.php | php - $1 $2 $3 blah blah This usually works for other script languages...i.e. ruby: cat myrubyscript.rb | ruby - $1 $2 $3 blah blah so my question is, how can i pass arguments to my php... (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, Here is my command print $2 was meant to select the second column however, it is getting substituted with the second argument that was passed to the script. Can you please tell me how can I resolve this ? (6 Replies)