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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script variable help, Varying number of arguments to excute script Post 302815885 by mutley2202 on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 01:02:08 PM
Old 06-02-2013
Script details
Hi Don,
Thanks for your response, Im fairly new to scripting so I am sure there are alot better ways to try and do what I want however its a learning curve for me so any advice you can offer would be much appreciated.

Example below

Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Please enter the MSISDN in 44 format then press the return key"?
read MSISDN
read MSISDN1
read MSISDN2
read MSISDN3
read MSISDN4
read MSISDN5
read MSISDN6
echo " Please wait... "
~/singlemsisdn $MSISDN $MSISDN1 $MSISDN2 $MSISDN3 $MSISDN4 $MSISDN5 $MSISDN6

So basically within this script the user would enter MSISDN's, I would like to do up to 100 at a time so in the above format im sure its going to take forever however Im not sure how else to do it at present. Once the user has entered the MSISDN's it needs to put it in the format of ~/SCRIPTNAME followed by each msisdn entered earlier with a space in between. THe only problem the amount of MSISDN's may vary and in the way I was trying to write it because i have defined more arguments than the amount of data the user entered it wont run.

Format of text the user will enter would be like the below

Code:
441234567890
441234567890
441234567890
441234567890

Hope you get the gist.

If i need to try explain clearer let me know.

cheers
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-02-2013 at 07:09 PM.. Reason: more detail; code tags (mod)
 

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Test::Script(3) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   Test::Script(3)

NAME

       Test::Script - Basic cross-platform tests for scripts

DESCRIPTION

       The intent of this module is to provide a series of basic tests for 80% of the testing you will need to do for scripts in the script (or
       bin as is also commonly used) paths of your Perl distribution.

       Further, it aims to provide this functionality with perfect platform-compatibility, and in a way that is as unobtrusive as possible.

       That is, if the program works on a platform, then Test::Script should always work on that platform as well. Anything less than 100% is
       considered unacceptable.

       In doing so, it is hoped that Test::Script can become a module that you can safely make a dependency of all your modules, without risking
       that your module won't on some platform because of the dependency.

       Where a clash exists between wanting more functionality and maintaining platform safety, this module will err on the side of platform
       safety.

FUNCTIONS

   script_compiles
	   script_compiles( 'script/foo.pl', 'Main script compiles' );

       The "script_compiles" test calls the script with "perl -c script.pl", and checks that it returns without error.

       The path it should be passed is a relative unix-format script name. This will be localised when running "perl -c" and if the test fails the
       local name used will be shown in the diagnostic output.

       Note also that the test will be run with the same perl interpreter that is running the test script (and not with the default system perl).
       This will also be shown in the diagnostic output on failure.

   script_runs
	   script_runs( 'script/foo.pl', 'Main script runs' );

       The "script_runs" test executes the script with "perl script.pl" and checks that it returns success.

       The path it should be passed is a relative unix-format script name. This will be localised when running "perl -c" and if the test fails the
       local name used will be shown in the diagnostic output.

       The test will be run with the same perl interpreter that is running the test script (and not with the default system perl). This will also
       be shown in the diagnostic output on failure.

SUPPORT

       All bugs should be filed via the bug tracker at

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AUTHOR

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       Copyright 2006 - 2009 Adam Kennedy.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

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