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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing arguments from a bash shell script to a command Post 302601792 by burbly on Friday 24th of February 2012 11:26:16 AM
Old 02-24-2012
Thanks... that ought to be enough to let me figure it out. FWIW, the original code looked like this, and it works. (Which are certainly not to say that it couldn't be cleaner -- I'm only just starting with bash scripting.)


Code:
#!/usr/bin/bash                                                                                                        
 
wd=$(dirname "$0")
pyth=$(which python)
latex=$(which latex)
xelatex=$(which xelatex)
mkindex=$(which makeindex)

input="$wd/ALMSGrammar.txt"
texfile="$wd/build/ALMSGrammar.tex"

INDICES=false
LABEL_SLOTS=false
CATEGORIES=false

while getopts "isc:" opt; do
  case $opt in
    i)
      INDICES=true
      ;;
    s)
      LABEL_SLOTS=true
      ;;
    c)
      CATEGORIES=true
      CATEGORY_LIST=$OPTARG
      ;;
    \?)
      echo "Invalid option: -$OPTARG" >&2
      echo "Usage:" >&2
      echo -e "   -i \tgenerate indices" >&2
      echo -e "   -s \tlabel slots" >&2
      exit 1
      ;;
  esac
done

#there musst be an easier way of doing this...
if $INDICES; then
    if $CATEGORIES; then
        if $LABEL_SLOTS; then
          $pyth "$wd/texify_grammar.py" "$input" "$texfile" "--indices" "--label-slots" "--categories" "$CATEGORY_LIST"
        else
          $pyth "$wd/texify_grammar.py" "$input" "$texfile" "--indices" "--categories" "$CATEGORY_LIST"
        fi
    else
        if $LABEL_SLOTS; then
          $pyth "$wd/texify_grammar.py" "$input" "$texfile" "--indices" "--label-slots"
        else
          $pyth "$wd/texify_grammar.py" "$input" "$texfile" "--indices" 
        fi
    fi
else
    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
fi

pushd "$wd/build"

if $INDICES; then
  "$latex" ALMSGrammar.tex
  "$mkindex" tokens
  "$mkindex" categories
  "$mkindex" todo
  "$latex" ALMSGrammar.tex
fi

"$xelatex" ALMSGrammar.tex
popd

mv "$wd/build/ALMSGrammar.pdf" "$wd"
open "$wd/ALMSGrammar.pdf"

 

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