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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Error:--test: argument expected--Even though i give an argument. Post 302600053 by harsha85 on Monday 20th of February 2012 02:41:55 AM
Old 02-20-2012
Error:--test: argument expected--Even though i give an argument.

Hi All,

I am running the script

Code:
VBoxManage list vms |sed 's/"//g' | cut -d " " -f1 > har1out.mytxt

result=`cat har1out.mytxt | grep $1'
echo $result
echo $1

{

if [ $result -eq $1 ]
then
echo pass
else
echo fail
fi

}

when i pass a argument which is present in the output file, it says Pass, but when i am giving a negative test says " test: argument expected"

Please help, am running it in solaris env. thank you.

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 02-20-2012 at 08:45 AM.. Reason: code tags please
 

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Example #1 forward_static_call_array(3) example <?php class A { const NAME = 'A'; public static function test() { $args = func_get_args(); echo static::NAME, " ".join(',', $args)." "; } } class B extends A { const NAME = 'B'; public static function test() { echo self::NAME, " "; forward_static_call_array(array('A', 'test'), array('more', 'args')); forward_static_call_array( 'test', array('other', 'args')); } } B::test('foo'); function test() { $args = func_get_args(); echo "C ".join(',', $args)." "; } ?> The above example will output: B B more,args C other,args SEE ALSO
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