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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Multiple conditions in IF Post 302975058 by junior-helper on Tuesday 7th of June 2016 06:31:36 PM
Old 06-07-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by xeccc5z
...am passing the file names as command line argument...
Why not use bash's special parameter #?
# Expands to the number of positional parameters in decimal.
Example:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

if [[ "$#" -ne "3" ]]; then
 echo "Need 3 files, you supplied $#, please try again."
 exit 1
fi

set -x
file1=$1
file2=$2
file3=$3
set +x

Test:
Code:
$ ./script
Need 3 files, you supplied 0, please try again.
$ ./script foo
Need 3 files, you supplied 1, please try again.
$ ./script foo bar
Need 3 files, you supplied 2, please try again.
$ ./script foo bar baz
+ file1=foo
+ file2=bar
+ file3=baz
+ set +x
$

 

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shift(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          shift(1)

NAME

       shift - shell built-in function to traverse either a shell's argument list or a list of field-separated words

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       shift [n]

   csh
       shift [variable]

   ksh
       * shift [n]

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       The positional parameters from $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ... . If n is not given, it is assumed to be 1.

   csh
       The  components of argv, or variable, if supplied, are shifted to the left, discarding the first component. It is an error for the variable
       not to be set or to have a null value.

   ksh
       The positional parameters from $n+1 $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ..., default n is 1. The parameter n can  be  any  arithmetic  expression  that
       evaluates to a non-negative number less than or equal to $#.

       On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:

       1.  Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.

       2.  I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.

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ATTRIBUTES

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SEE ALSO

       csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)

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