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Old 02-27-2012
Setting Verbosity Option of Script
I have a script and I want the verbosity option to work in the following way:

User can either set quiet (no verbosity), use default verbosity level (when doing -v), or set a level value (when doing -v=2 or --vrbLevel=2).

I am making some more progress on this and am thinking of this idea.
Code:
if ($opt_quiet == 1) then
  set opt_verbose = 0                   # No verbosity allowed
  set vrbLevel = 0                        # Set to verbosity level 0 (quiet)
else if () then
  set                                             # Set to user level
else
  set vrbLevel = Def_vrbLevel    # Set default verbosity level
endif

The problem I am having is when I try to set the user value.

Code:
set ierr = 0
set iarg = 0
set opt_verbose = 0
set opt_usage = 0

set Def_vrbLevel = 1

set arg_fullNamesLst = ""
set narg = $#argv
while ($iarg < $narg)

  MATH iarg = $iarg + 1

  set arg = $argv[$iarg]
  set opt = `echo $arg | awk 'BEGIN {FS="="} {print $1}' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`
  set par = `echo $arg | awk 'BEGIN {FS="="} {print $2}'`

  switch ($opt)

    case "-V":
    case "--VRB-LEVEL":
      set arg_vrbLevel = $par
      set opt_verbose = 1
      breaksw

    case "-Q":
    case "--QUIET":
      set opt_quiet = 0
      breaksw

    default:
      set arg_fullNamesLst = "$arg_fullNamesLst $arg"
      breaksw

  endsw

end   # while

if ($opt_quiet == 1) then
  set opt_verbose = 0
  set vrbLevel = 0
else if () then
  set vrbLevel = arg_vrbLevel
else
  set vrbLevel = $Def_vrbLevel
endif

if (($verbose == 1) && ($vrbLevel >=3)) then
  echo "Some information"
endif

Last edited by kristinu; 02-27-2012 at 01:12 PM..
# 2  
Old 02-27-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by kristinu
The problem I am having is when I try to set the user value.
And what problem would that be?
# 3  
Old 02-27-2012
if the user passes -v=2 or -v=3 etc, things are fine, but if the user uses only -v I got to use the default.

My problem is how to check whether the user passed a number or not.

I need something like this I think.

Code:
if ($opt_quiet == 1) then
  set opt_verbose = 0
  set vrbLevel = 0
else if ($user_passed_number == 1) then
  set vrbLevel = $arg_vrbLevel
else
  set vrbLevel = Def_vrbLevel
endif

# 4  
Old 02-27-2012
That doesn't look like shell script. What shell is this?
# 5  
Old 02-27-2012
Quote:
That doesn't look like shell script. What shell is this?
kristinu is persisting with a "C Shell".
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