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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing arguments to a bash script Post 302905314 by shree11 on Wednesday 11th of June 2014 02:56:29 AM
Old 06-11-2014
Passing arguments to a bash script
Hi,

I wanted to pass an argument to a bash script. So that the argument is used inside the awk command inside the bash script.
I know the noraml way of passing argument to a bash script as below :
Code:
sh myScript.sh abc

Inside the bash script i can use like this
myArg1=$1
wc $myArg

But here in my case, i'm using awk command inside the bash script.
So when i do similar kind of thing as mention below(the below code is not an original code):
Code:
#!/bin/bash
awk -F ","  '{  
mytable = $1;
a = CREATE TABLE $mytable(x int, y string);
}' file1.txt  file2.txt

When i run the script as:
Code:
sh testScript  xyz

It's not taking the argument $1 in the create table statement and giving the output as :
Quote:
a = CREATE TABLE $mytable(x int, y string);

The desired output is :
a = CREATE TABLE xyz(x int, y string);
So where its going wrong?
How can i pass the input parameters inside the awk command in bash script ?

Thanks in Advance,
Shree
 

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XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)

NAME

       xsil2graphics - generate scripts to load xsil output data files

SYNOPSIS

       xsil2graphics [options] <xsil_file>

DESCRIPTION

       Utility program bundled with xmds, used to generate scripts that load simulation output data into either matlab (http://www.mathworks.com)
       or scilab (http://www.scilab.org), which are then used to manipulate the results further if necessary and then to present the results
       graphically.

       Matlab

       To generate a matlab m-file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:

       bash$ xsil2graphics data_file.xsil

       or

       bash$ xsil2graphics --matlab data_file.xsil

       Then at the matlab command prompt:

       >> data_file

       Scilab

       To generate a scilab script file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:

       bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab data_file.xsil

       Then at the scilab command prompt:

       --> exec('data_file.sci')

OPTIONS

       -m, --matlab generate matlab m-file script to load data from the xsil data file (the default option)

       -s, -scilab generate scilab script file to load data from the xsil data file

       -o, --outfile <out_file> specify an alternative output script filename to the default which is the input xsil filename with the .xsil
       extension changed to either .m for the matlab m-file or .sci for the scilab script file

EXAMPLES

       bash$ xsil2graphics nlse.xsil

       Generates the output nlse.m to load the data into matlab

       bash$ xsil2graphics -m nlse.xsil

       Also generates the output nlse.m but explicitly sets matlab to be the output format

       bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab nlse.xsil

       Generates the output nlse.sci to load the data into scilab

       bash$ xsil2graphics --outfile nlse_new.m nlse.xsil

       Generates the output nlse_new.m to load the data into matlab

AUTHORS

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       Maintained by Paul Cochrane with code contributed by Joe Hope

BUGS

       No known bugs.

SEE ALSO

       xmds(1), loadxsil(1)

       http://www.xmds.org

COPYRIGHT

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       Code contributed by Greg Collecutt, Joseph Hope and Paul Cochrane

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