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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check for spaces in input argument! Post 302887225 by dixits on Thursday 6th of February 2014 11:54:44 AM
Old 02-06-2014
The way it works is:
Example: If the user types:
Code:
cluster_on_lev3.csh -dir /home/shared -t 2.3 -p 0.05 -c 26 -l 2"

The above code checks for arguments such as -dir, -t, or -c in the Case statement and shifts to set the input variable passed by the user. I also have the part of the code to have the default values when the argument is not been used.
All I want is to prompt the user in case he didn't use the space with the argument. That is the code exits when user passed:
Code:
 cluster_on_lev3.csh -dir /home/shared -t 2.3 -p 0.05 -c26 (incorrect) -l2 (incorrect)

I understand moving away from csh is the best way and I am migrating to bash, but this is someone else's script and I have been asked to do modifications. Thanks for understanding.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-06-2014 at 03:02 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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