Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Passing arguments from a bash shell script to a command
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing arguments from a bash shell script to a command Post 302601722 by burbly on Friday 24th of February 2012 09:05:00 AM
Old 02-24-2012
Passing arguments from a bash shell script to a command
I'm pretty new to bash scripting and I've found myself writing things like this (and the same with even more nesting):

Code:
    if $CATEGORIES; then
        if $LABEL_SLOTS; then
          $pyth "$wd/texify_grammar.py" "$input" "$texfile" "--label-slots" "--categories" "$CATEGORY_LIST"
        else
          $pyth "$wd/texify_grammar.py" "$input" "$texfile" "--categories" "$CATEGORY_LIST"
        fi
    else
        if $LABEL_SLOTS; then
          $pyth "$wd/texify_grammar.py" "$input" "$texfile" "--label-slots"
        else
          $pyth "$wd/texify_grammar.py" "$input" "$texfile"
        fi
    fi

There must be an easier way to do this... I've tried searching for the answer but haven't had much luck (probably because I don't know the right keywords to search for). Any help would be much appreciated!

Best wishes,
M
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Solaris

Passing arguments to a shell script from file while scheduling in cron

Hi, I have a shell script Scp_1.sh for which I have to pass 2 arguments to run. I have another script Scp_2.sh which in turns calls script Scp_1.sh inside. How do I make Scp_1.sh script to read arguments automatically from a file, while running Scp_2.sh? -- Weblogic Support (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: weblogicsupport
4 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

passing runtime arguments to a shell script...

hi I am new to shell programming.....my question is while running one of my shell program it stops in between to accept input from the user and proceeds furthur after giving input....I want to know whether I can set this input through some files so that the shell acript reads the input from the... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: santy
10 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help required in passing multiple arguments from a shell script to a pl/sql block

Hi, hope everyone are fine. Please find my issue below, and I request your help in the same In a configuration file, i have a variable defined as below TEST = 'One','Two','Three' I am trying to pass this variable in to a sql script which is define in a pl/sql block as follows, In the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ramakanth_burra
1 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

passing arguments to unix command or script inside tclsh

hi everobody kindly consider the following in tclsh I understand that we can do the following %exec UnixCmd arg1 arg2 but if I assinged the arguments to a list insde tclsh how can I use them back i.e %set ArgList %exec UnixCmd %exec Unixcmd $list %exec all the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Blue_shadow
1 Replies

5. Programming

Passing arguments from java to script shell

Hello Please i want to pass parameter (the string s) to the shell script: Quote: String s="Hello"; Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("sh script1.sh"); How can i do please? Thank you (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: chercheur857
0 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Passing multiple arguments to a shell script

Hi Gurus, Need some help with the shell scripting here. #!/bin/ksh ps -ef | grep -i sample.ksh | grep -v grep > abc.txt if then echo "sample.ksh is executing" else echo "sample.ksh is not executing" fi (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jayadanabalan
1 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Passing arguments to a bash script

Hi, I wanted to pass an argument to a bash script. So that the argument is used inside the awk command inside the bash script. I know the noraml way of passing argument to a bash script as below : sh myScript.sh abc Inside the bash script i can use like this myArg1=$1 wc $myArg But... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: shree11
8 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Passing arguments to interactive program through bash script, here document

Dear Users, I have installed a standalone program to do multiple sequence alignment which takes user parameters to run the program. I have multiple sequence files and want to automate this process through a bash script. I have tried to write a small bash code but its throwing errors. Kindly... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: biochemist
13 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

C shell script passing arguments problem.

I found something insteresting when I tested passing arguments into my scripts. My scripts is as below. % cat passarg.env #!/bin/csh echo "passarg: argv = $argv argv = $argv" passarg1.env $* % cat passarg1.env #!/bin/csh echo "passarg1: argv = $argv argvp=$argv" set str = "test... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bestard
5 Replies

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Passing Arguments to shell script from file is not working as expected.

Hi All, I have below simple shell script in cloudera quick start vm cenos 6 which copy file from source to destination. # file_copy.sh source_dir = ${source_dir} target = ${target_dir} cp source_dir target and my parameter file is like below #parameter_file.txt source_dir =... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Narasimhasss
4 Replies

LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

amtape

AMTAPE(8)						  System Administration Commands						 AMTAPE(8)

NAME

       amtape - Control Amanda changers

SYNOPSIS

       amtape [-o configoption...] config subcommand [subcommand_options...]

DESCRIPTION

       Amtape is the command-line interface to Amanda's tape changers (amanda-changers(7)) and to the taperscan algorithm (amanda-taperscan(7)).

       Tape changers maintain a notion of the current slot for each configuration. This may or may not correspond to an actual physical state of
       the device, but is used by some taperscan algorithms to minimize searching through the slots.

       Amtape uses the default changer. To use a different changer, use the config override option, e.g., -otpchanger=otherchanger.

SUBCOMMANDS

       label label
	   Search for and load the Amanda tape with label [label], also setting the current slot.

       slot slot
	   Load the volume in the given slot, also setting the current slot. The slot names current, next, first, and last have special meaning.

       current
	   Shorthand for slot current.

       inventory
	   Show the contents of all slots, based on the changer's cached metadata. This is a quick operation as it does not load or unload any
	   volumes, but is not supported by all changers.

       show [slots]
	   Show the contents of all slots (or listed slots) by loading each slot and reading its label. This can be very slow. The slots arguments
	   is of the form 1,3-5,7.

       reset
	   Reset the changer to a known state. This subcommand is intended to clear any unknown and potentially incorrect state the changer may
	   have stored.

       eject [drive]
	   Eject the tape currently in the drive. This only applies to some changers. Specify a drive (by drive number) if more than one drive is
	   available.

       clean [drive]
	   If a cleaning tape is defined for the changer, used it to clean the specified drive. The [drive] is optional if the changer only has
	   one drive.

       taper
	   Run the taperscan algorithm (see amanda-taperscan(7)), displaying information about the progress of the scan.

       update [what]
	   Update changer state. Consult amanda-changers(7) for changer-specific details on the format of what.

       -o configoption
	   See the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8).

SEE ALSO

       amanda(8), amanda-changers(7), amanda-taperscan(7), amanda-devices(7)

       The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

AUTHORS

       Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
	   Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

       James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>

       Stefan G. Weichinger <sgw@amanda.org>

Amanda 3.3.3							    01/10/2013								 AMTAPE(8)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 02:39 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy