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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read Strings in as options to switches Post 302769194 by glev2005 on Monday 11th of February 2013 12:38:13 PM
Old 02-11-2013
Read Strings in as options to switches
I have a script using getops with -a -t -l as potential switches, based on the switches used, it will set the respective variable value which will cause the routine/function to run. I need to also pass a string with the switch that will get parsed by the function.

Code:
example
./myscript -a apples,oranges,pears -t ham,pastrami,bologna

while getops atl OPTION
do
case $OPTION in
a) AVAR=ACTIVE ;;
t) TVAR=ACTIVE ;;
esac
done

if [ $AVAR ]
then
read in string "apples,oranges,pears"
etc...

if [$TVAR]
then
read in string "ham,pastrami,bologna"

I need help to pass the strings that follow the switches in to the blocks that apply to those switches. I don't want an interactive script, I need to pass everything as args.
 

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