Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friends.
i am newbie to shell scripting. I need to create a script where i will be passing 2 parameters to the script and based on that it should work.
For ex: start_proc a 2 or start_proc b 2
start_proc a 2 --- this should bring up 2 processes as i define inside the script.

start_proc b 2 --- this should bring down 2 processes as i define inside the script.

Basically the value a & b define if the process needs to start or stop and the number 2 defines the counts that need to be brought up or down

In the script i used: if [ $1 eq 'a'] to define the first parameter and on execution it gives me: ./start_proc.sh [11]: a: bad number

So how do i use it? I am using HP-UX.

You should use:

Code:

[ "$1" = 'a' ]

instead of:

Code:

[ $1 eq 'a']

You may already know, but in this case the single quotes around a are unnecessary.

Thanks Radoulov. :-)