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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting UNIX: passing stuff to a shell function Post 302991261 by emare on Wednesday 8th of February 2017 11:08:02 AM
Old 02-08-2017
UNIX: passing stuff to a shell function
I have users that print files to selected printers. Instead of creating one function for each printer I would like to have just one and passing the files to print as well as the wanted printer. The following code does not work, of course.
I'm expecting that $1 is the list of files to be printed and $2 the printer; but $1 and $2 are the first two files in $list2.
Using $@ will carry all variables including also the $printer2, but that it is not useful.
Can anyone point me to the correct solution?

Code:
printer2=some1printer1
list2=`ls /spooldocs/sch/sch* |sort`
Print $list2 $printer2

Print(){
  for job in $1 ; do
    if [[ $job == *503374*.pcl ]]; then
      lp -d$2 $job
      lp -d$2 $job
    fi
    lp -d$2 $job
    lp -d$2 $job
    lp -d$2 $job
    lp -d$2 $job
  done
}

 

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NAME

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DESCRIPTION

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