I want to write a script which will check the arguments and if there is a single space(if 2 more more space in a row , then do not touch), replace it with _ and then gather the argument
so, program will be ran
./programname hi hello hi usa now hello hello
so, inside of program,... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I am parsing command line options using getopts.
The problem is that mandatory argument options following ":" is taking next option as argument if it is not followed by any argument.
Below is the script:
while getopts :hd:t:s:l:p:f: opt
do
case "$opt" in
-h|-\?)... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using bash and ksh93 compatible derivatives.
In a recent getopts experience, I found myself spending far too much
time on this little problem. I hope someone can help...
So here's the deal.
I want to build have a command line interface that accepts either zero,
one, or... (4 Replies)
Hi there, if i have a simple getopts like below ...how can i make it so that if somebody enters more than one -g argument for example, it will error with a " you cannot enter more than one -g" or something like that.?
I want to only allow one instance of a -g or a -h etc ..
while getopts... (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus
I am trying to figure out (with not much success) how to pass two values to a single getopts argument ... for example
./script -a Tuesday sausagesThe $OPTARG variable seems to only get populated with the first argument. What im looking to do is to process the first argument (i.e.make... (6 Replies)
Hi I have below code in one of my shell script:
if ; then fail $USAGE; fi
while getopts hz:r:t:dz: o
do
case "$o" in
h) echo $USAGE ; exit 0;;
r) export REQ_ID="$OPTARG";;
t) TIMESPAN="$OPTARG";;
d) detail="true";;
) ... (0 Replies)
EDIT: -- SOLVED --
Heyas,
Getting used to optargs, but by far not understanding it.
So i have that script that shall be 'changeable', trying to use the passed arguments to modify the script visuals.
Passing:
browser -t test -d sect $HOME
Where -t should change the title,
and -d... (0 Replies)
I'm trying to crudely hack my way through some data processing.
I have file.txt with around 17,000 lines like this:
ACYPI002690-PA.aa.afa.afa.trim_phyml_tree_fullnames_fullhomolog.txt 3 72 71
ACYPI002690-PA.aa.afa.afa.trim_phyml_tree_fullnames_fullhomolog.txt 97 111 71... (1 Reply)
Hello everyone,
I need help in understanding the default value for getopts option's argument in ksh. I've written a short test script:
#!/bin/ksh
usage(){
printf "Usage: -v and -m are mandatory\n\n"
}
while getopts ":v#m:" opt; do
case $opt in
v) version="$OPTARG";;
... (1 Reply)
There are many places where I can see the syntax description for optargs, which, usually boils down to this:
getopts OPTSTRING VARNAME
where:
OPTSTRING tells getopts which options to expect and where to expect arguments
VARNAME tells getopts which shell-variable to use for option reporting... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sharkura
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escapeshellarg
ESCAPESHELLARG(3) 1 ESCAPESHELLARG(3)escapeshellarg - Escape a string to be used as a shell argumentSYNOPSIS
string escapeshellarg (string $arg)
DESCRIPTION escapeshellarg(3) adds single quotes around a string and quotes/escapes any existing single quotes allowing you to pass a string directly
to a shell function and having it be treated as a single safe argument. This function should be used to escape individual arguments to
shell functions coming from user input. The shell functions include exec(3), system(3) and the backtick operator.
On Windows, escapeshellarg(3) instead removes percent signs, replaces double quotes with spaces and adds double quotes around the string.
PARAMETERS
o $arg
- The argument that will be escaped.
RETURN VALUES
The escaped string.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
escapeshellarg(3) example
<?php
system('ls '.escapeshellarg($dir));
?>
SEE ALSO escapeshellcmd(3), exec(3), popen(3), system(3), backtick operator.
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