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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cut a script name to create a blank file Post 302906265 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 18th of June 2014 11:49:36 AM

06-18-2014

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These are much easier to do with variable substitution. It sounds hard to get started, but it's easier when you get the hang of it.

Is SCRIPT_NAME a value you will read as input or do you want it to be the name of the script you are already running? The current running script will be known as $0, parm 1 is $1, parm 2 is $2 etc.

If you are using this, then you can slice the values up however you like, such as:-

Code:

SCRIPT_NAME=$0
echo $SCRIPT_NAME

SCRIPT_NAME="${0##*/}"               # Trim off everything up to and including the last /, i.e. the path.
echo $SCRIPT_NAME

SCRIPT_NAME="${SCRIPT_NAME%.sh}"     # Trim off a trailing .sh from what you've already got
echo $SCRIPT_NAME

PARM1=$1
echo $PARM1

You might be wanting to read from an input file as you seem to suggest with your done <"ListFile.txt" so you could also do this:-

Code:

while read scr par1 par2
do
   trimmed="${scr%.sh}"
   echo "I'm running $trimmed with parm1=$par1 and parm2=$par2"
   echo "My completion flag will be $trimmed.$par1.$par2.finished"
done < listfile.txt

Does that help?

Be aware that if you have three parameters, then this while read will put the 2nd & 3rd parameter into $par2

Robin

Last edited by rbatte1; 06-18-2014 at 12:51 PM.. Reason: Added parm3 warning

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