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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script that uses 2 arguments. I want to call the function part within this script using these same arguments. Below is what I came up with below script so far, any guidance would be helpful. Thank you!
cat backup.sh
#!/bin/bash
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7
8 for directory in "$ourpath"
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Heays
So i have that script to which i'd like to pipe (rather than just regular arguments) some data from another virtual output command.
Simplified:
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When i know how many args i expect, i can handle this simple by:
&& \
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
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hi
i have a function
abc
{
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