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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Picking script options in bash Post 303044263 by Danette on Monday 17th of February 2020 05:29:22 PM
Old 02-17-2020
Picking script options in bash
I would like to select a particular file by passing an option to a bash script so that I can call another
program to compile an outline of some documents I have

But I am getting an error when running the script, for example

Code:
./outlineCh.sh --Segpi
./outlineCh.sh: line 154: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Code:
#!/bin/bash

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# READ ARGUMENTS

iarg=0
narg="$#"

OLDIFS="$IFS"  # Save IFS (splits arguments on whitespace by default)
IFS="|="       # Split arguments on "|" and "="
set -- $*      # Set positional parameters to command line arguments
IFS="$OLDIFS"  # Set original IFS

while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do

  iarg=$(( iarg + 1 ))

  case "$1" in

    # Sets the image density
    "-Capav"|"--Capav"|"Ch02a--Capav")
      arg_Capav="enabled"
      ;;

    # Sets the image density
    "-Igmfn"|"--Igmfn"|"Ch03a--Igmfn")
      arg_Igmfn="enabled"
      ;;

    # Sets the image density
    "-Segpi"|"--Segpi"|"Ch04a--Segpi")
      arg_Segpi="enabled"
      ;;

    # Sets the image density
    "-Exads"|"--Exads"|"Ch05a--Exads")
      arg_Exads="enabled"
      ;;

    # Sets the image density
    "-Isemi"|"--Isemi"|"Ch06a--Isemi")
      arg_Isemi="enabled"
      ;;

    *)
      arg_file="$arg_file ${1}"
      ;;

  esac

  # Skip ahead to the next argument
  shift 1

done

crPath="/home/hagbard/chaos/resip/critical"
dvPath="resources/reports/tdr/Development/tdr--1.0"
txPath="${crPath}/${dvPath}/tx411"

# * [Part I]
flnm01a="Ch01a--Smirs--SmInterdspl--Strategy.texi"
flnm02a="Ch02a--Capav--CnptApl--Ambiv.texi"
flnm03a="Ch03a--Igmfn--Invit--GMtkFndn.texi"

# * [Part II]
flnm04a="Ch04a--Segpi--SgExtrcn--GPhy.texi"
flnm05a="Ch05a--Exads--Exmn--AdmSys.texi"

# * [Part III]
flnm06a="Ch06a--Isemi--ImprSgExtr--GMtk.texi"
flnm07a="Ch07a--Cocpl--COrgn--CplPipl.texi"

if [ -z "${arg_Smirs+X}" ]; then
  flnm="${txPath}/${flnm01a}"
elif if [ -z "${arg_Capav+X}" ]; then
  flnm="${txPath}/${flnm02a}"
elif if [ -z "${arg_Igmfn+X}" ]; then
  flnm="${txPath}/${flnm03a}"
elif if [ -z "${arg_Segpi+X}" ]; then
  flnm="${txPath}/${flnm04a}"
elif if [ -z "${arg_Exads+X}" ]; then
  flnm="${txPath}/${flnm05a}"
elif if [ -z "${arg_Isemi+X}" ]; then
  flnm="${txPath}/${flnm06a}"
elif if [ -z "${arg_Cocpl+X}" ]; then
  flnm="${txPath}/${flnm07a}"
elif [ -z "${arg_file+X}" ]; then
  flnm="${txPath}/${arg_file}"
else
  flnm="${txPath}/${flnm04a}"
fi

exit

Last edited by Danette; 02-17-2020 at 07:08 PM..
 

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