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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How can multiple arguments be passed to shell script? Post 302898917 by chacko193 on Friday 25th of April 2014 02:46:31 AM
Old 04-25-2014
getopts might help you. Have a look at this sample script:
Code:
m@home$cat test.sh
#! /bin/bash

#An array to hold the values passed using -c option
declare -a c_arr

#The count of -c options
c_count=0

#Go through all the optins passed
while getopts ":c:a:" o
do
        case "${o}" in
        c)
        c_arr[$c_count]=${OPTARG}
        let c_count=$c_count+1
        ;;

        a)
        a=${OPTARG}
        ;;

        *)
        echo "Wrong usage"
        exit 1
        ;;
        esac
done

if [ $c_count -eq 0 ]
then
        echo "option -c is mandatory"
        exit 1
fi

let i=$c_count-1

while [ $i -ge 0 ]
do
        echo "Got value for c option: ${c_arr[$i]}"
        let i=$i-1
done

if [ ! -z $a ]
then
        echo "Got value for a option: $a"
fi

And the output
Code:
m@home$./test.sh -c C1 -c C2 -a A
Got value for c option: C2
Got value for c option: C1
Got value for a option: A

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script

script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME

       script - make record of a terminal session

SYNOPSIS

       script [-a] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       The  script  utility  makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
       record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.

       The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
       when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -a	Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.

NOTES

       script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       script  can  pose  a  security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a
       privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.

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