Passing parameters to bash script function (or subroutine)
I've found a few posts regarding passing parameters to a function or subroutine, but for some reason when I try to run a command based on part with these parameters it's not working. If I have the function echo the parameters they show correctly so I believe they are being passed right but the command fails when it runs.
I have 2 scripts: script1 and script2
Script1 passes 4 parameters to script2 as follows
#script1
code
...
...
script2 $var1 $var2 $var3 $var4
Script2 uses the export command to know to expect these values
#script2
export $1 $2 $3 $4
code
...
...
The problem that I am having is... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
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Right now no file is generated on the unix box...it is a... (2 Replies)
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I have a question.
In the FTP script if we are passing all the required value like Hostname, username, password, Action(put or get), Filename, & mode(ascii or binary) through parameters then we have to pass these in the exact orders in which they are taken like if we defined Username=$2... (2 Replies)
Passing a array to a function, a basic feature in modern language, seems to be only possible in KSH. Not in BASH. Depite all my efforts I couldn't come to a solution. See the following examples:
It works perfectly in KSH:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
function print_array {
# assign array by indirect... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to write a function that reassigns an array to
another local array but the method used in reassigning
the array reformats the contents of the array which is
what I am trying to prevent.
The method used to load a file into an array works as
expected and the entire array is... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to shell scripting required some help in passing the parameter value to the shell script.
I am writing a shell script, in the script I have created two functions as below.
first function
get_trend_ids () {
Here I am connecting to the database and getting all the... (3 Replies)
how can i make a script to run only when parameters are given,
if parameters are not given it should through an error , saying "please enter a parameter"
for ex: i want a find command to run only when the parameters are given (4 Replies)
I'm working on AIX 6, ksh shell. The parameters are some strings quotated by double quotation marks which from a file. They are quotated because there may be spaces in them.
Example:
"015607" "10" " " "A"I want to pass these parameters to a shell function by writing the following command:
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OCF_HEARTBEAT_VMWARE(7) OCF resource agents OCF_HEARTBEAT_VMWARE(7)NAME
ocf_heartbeat_vmware - Manages VMWare Server 2.0 virtual machines
SYNOPSIS
vmware [start | stop | monitor | meta-data]
DESCRIPTION
OCF compliant script to control vmware server 2.0 virtual machines.
SUPPORTED PARAMETERS
vmxpath
VMX configuration file path (required, string, no default)
vimshbin
vmware-vim-cmd executable path (optional, string, default /usr/bin/vmware-vim-cmd)
SUPPORTED ACTIONS
This resource agent supports the following actions (operations):
start
Starts the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 600.
stop
Stops the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 600.
monitor
Performs a detailed status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 30. Suggested interval: 300.
meta-data
Retrieves resource agent metadata (internal use only). Suggested minimum timeout: 5.
EXAMPLE
The following is an example configuration for a vmware resource using the crm(8) shell:
primitive example_vmware ocf:heartbeat:vmware
params
vmxpath=string
op monitor timeout="30" interval="300" depth="0"
SEE ALSO
http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/vmware_(resource_agent)
AUTHOR
Linux-HA contributors (see the resource agent source for information about individual authors)
resource-agents 1.0.3 07/05/2010 OCF_HEARTBEAT_VMWARE(7)