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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing parameters to bash script function (or subroutine) Post 302599824 by withanh on Saturday 18th of February 2012 06:00:16 PM
Old 02-18-2012
Thank you agama, it was both that needed to be done. I wrapped the variables in quotes (it was really only the $2 that needed to be wrapped) and take the single quotes off the call.

I appreciate your help on this!

Thanks again!

h

Final code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

function waitforvmtools {
  toolstate=`/usr/bin/vmware-cmd -H $1 -U root -P 'pass!word' "$2" gettoolslastactive`
  until [  "$toolstate" = "gettoolslastactive() = 1" ]; do
    sleep 5
    toolstate=`/usr/bin/vmware-cmd -H $1 -U root -P 'pass!word' "$2" gettoolslastactive`
  done
}

waitforvmtools lab-esxi1 "[NFS2] lab-vcenter/lab-vcenter.vmx"

Last edited by withanh; 02-18-2012 at 07:06 PM.. Reason: added final script version
 

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