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Hey, guys I really need some help with a project.

"Write a shell program that examines the command line arguments, counts and collects the number of options. Basically it has to collect and count the arguments that start with a "-" and the one's that don't start with a -

I know I have to use -*) and *) I am having trouble actually creating the structure


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3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):

I tried using some commands but I am not sure how case statement works


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SAC, San Antonio, TX Baker Unix

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Hi, have a look at getopts

Please mention what Shell you are using.

from bash's "help case": case WORD in [PATTERN [| PATTERN]...) COMMANDS ;;]... esac

So your starting point:

Code:

    case "$1" in
        -*) command;;
        *) command;;
    esac

You will want to look at shift and while so that you can loop across all command line arguments passed to the shell.

Yes, I am using bash.

I've try using commands and it tells me it dosen't exist or i can't find that command what might I be doing wrong or do I have to structure that command in a specific way.

show us. copy and paste what you try and what it does

Code:

case "$1" in
-*) echo "Total of is $#";;
echo " Collected $@";;
*) echo "Total of non- is $#";;
echo "Collected $@";;
esac

I am not sure if this is even right but I know $# displays the total number of arguments and $@ shows the actual arguments but my results are that is showing all of them even for -*) still shows the ones without the -.

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