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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing arguments while running the script Post 302925162 by Corona688 on Friday 14th of November 2014 10:31:25 AM
Old 11-14-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Anusha M
Hi Rudic,

The purpose is to automate running this script using a tool. So the manual activity of changing the file which is passed as argument is impossible.
Do you mean those arguments are things you'd usually be typing into the script? < expects a filename, to feed text into it you'll want a pipe. Maybe something like:

Code:
echo "Welcome to $1"
# Put $2 and $3 inside double quotes to prevent them splitting upon spaces
echo "$3" | runmqsc "$2"

It's also important to note that your requirements are broken, these won't work:

Code:
Requirement 1:
./hi.sh "xclx111" "QASSSSS" "DEFINE QL("hi")"

Requirement 2:
./hi.sh "xclx111" "QASSSSS" "DISPLAY QS("hi")"

...because you cannot put quotes inside quotes like that. You could do this:

Code:
Requirement 1:
./hi.sh "xclx111" "QASSSSS" 'DEFINE QL("hi")


Code:



'






Requirement 2:
./hi.sh "xclx111" "QASSSSS" 'DISPLAY QS("hi")'

...as long as you're aware that variables don't expand inside single quotes. You couldn't do 'DISPLAY QS("$shellvariable")' and expect $shellvariable to be substituted.

If you can do "DEFINE QL('$shellvariable')" that's quite okay.

You can also escape things with \ inside double-quotes like "DEFINE QL(\"value\")"
Last edited by Corona688; 11-14-2014 at 11:36 AM..
 

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NAME

       uudemon.admin,  uudemon.cleanu,	uudemon.hour,  uudemon.poll  -	Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the  scripts,  remove
       the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.

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       results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID  (uucpa)	or
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