ksh parsing arguments in a string rather than from the cmdln
Hi. I have a piece of code that reads and parses command line options. I'd like to alter it slightly to read from a string (that's set elsewhere in the script) rather than directly from the command line (arg). Can somebody show me how to do this? Many thanks.
My code is as follows:
Instead of reading the arguments from command line I'd like the code to read from the following variable that's set inside the KSH script:
or
Is there a way to get the command line arguments.
I am using getopt(3) but if the arguments are more than one for a particular option than it just ignores the second argument. For eg
./a.out -x abc def
now abd will be got with -x using getopt "( x : )" and string abc\0def will get stored... (7 Replies)
Hey guys,
I have this file generated by me... i want to create some HTML output from it.
The problem is that i am really confused about how do I go about reading the file.
The file is in the following format:
TID1 Name1 ATime=xx AResult=yyy AExpected=yyy BTime=xx BResult=yyy... (8 Replies)
Looking for a little help parsing some command line arguments in a bash script I am working on, this is probably fairly basic to most, but I do not have much experience with it.
At the command line, when the script is run, I need to make sure the argument passed is a file, it exists in the... (3 Replies)
Hi unix guru's
I want to execute a shell script like ksh printdetails.ksh Andy,Bob,Daisy,Johnson
like passing all the four names in the as the arguments and these arguments are varies between 1 to 10.
How to pass these names to the shell script variable.
and also i want to know the count... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I am trying to use long arguments for my existing script. right now my script would work if given <script_name> -t <arg1> -b <arg2> -v <arg3>. The script code is shown below.
while getopts t:v:b: OPT;do
case "$OPT" in
t) Todo=$OPTARG;;
b) Batch=$OPTARG;;
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am not very skilled using ksh scripts.
How do I create a ksh script that will accept arguments and use them in the script ?
I need to make this:
Run this command with this argument:
./mykshprogram.ksh madsen
and sometimes I need to do this:
Run the ksh again with 2... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I've a python script called aaa.py and passing an command line option " -a" to the script like, ./aaa.py -a
& Inside the script if the -a option is given I do some operation if not something else.
code looks like
./aaa.py -a
.
.
if options.a
---some operation---
if not options.a... (1 Reply)
]I have a string like "/abc/cmind/def/pq/IC.2.4.6_main.64b/lnx86" and this string is given by user. But in this string instead of 64b user may passed 32 b an i need to parse this string and check wether its is 32b or 64 b and according to it i want to set appropriate flags.
How will i do this... (11 Replies)
I have a shell script, which has a function, which call a perl script. Also it has a shell function call parse_ars as fogllow:
#!/bin/ksh
load_ici_dat() {
cd ${OUTPUT_DIR}
typeset batch_file=XRED${MM}${DD}
typeset SCRIPT="${PROG}.pl"
echo "time ${PERLEXE5X} ${PERL_HOME}/${SCRIPT}... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
exec
exec(1) User Commands exec(1)NAME
exec, eval, source - shell built-in functions to execute other commands
SYNOPSIS
sh
exec [argument...]
eval [argument...]
csh
exec command
eval argument...
source [-h] name
ksh
*exec [arg...]
*eval [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The exec command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new process. Input/output arguments may
appear and, if no other arguments are given, cause the shell input/output to be modified.
The arguments to the eval built-in are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
csh
exec executes command in place of the current shell, which terminates.
eval reads its arguments as input to the shell and executes the resulting command(s). This is usually used to execute commands generated as
the result of command or variable substitution.
source reads commands from name. source commands may be nested, but if they are nested too deeply the shell may run out of file descrip-
tors. An error in a sourced file at any level terminates all nested source commands.
-h Place commands from the file name on the history list without executing them.
ksh
With the exec built-in, if arg is given, the command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new
process. Input/output arguments may appear and affect the current process. If no arguments are given the effect of this command is to mod-
ify file descriptors as prescribed by the input/output redirection list. In this case, any file descriptor numbers greater than 2 that are
opened with this mechanism are closed when invoking another program.
The arguments to eval are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
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.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
EXIT STATUS
For ksh:
If command is not found, the exit status is 127. If command is found, but is not an executable utility, the exit status is 126. If a redi-
rection error occurs, the shell exits with a value in the range 1-125. Otherwise, exec returns a zero exit status.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 17 Jul 2002 exec(1)