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# 8  
Old 09-05-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
You can remove the shift command.
I did. but still its not reading the second v flag.
# 9  
Old 09-05-2013
You can only save one of v's arguments into "vname". Is that what you mean?

Unless you process it within the loop, you'll need to store more values, for which you can use an array:
Code:
$ cat myScript
while getopts f:v:s opt; do
 case "$opt" in
  f) echo f has $OPTARG;;
  v) v_args[${#v_args[@]}]=$OPTARG;;
  s) echo s has nothing;;
esac
done

echo ${v_args[0]}
echo ${v_args[1]}

$ ./myScript -v abc -v 123
abc
123

Notice also that "s" has no arguments (f:v:s).
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# 10  
Old 09-06-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
You can only save one of v's arguments into "vname". Is that what you mean?

Unless you process it within the loop, you'll need to store more values, for which you can use an array:
Code:
$ cat myScript
while getopts f:v:s opt; do
 case "$opt" in
  f) echo f has $OPTARG;;
  v) v_args[${#v_args[@]}]=$OPTARG;;
  s) echo s has nothing;;
esac
done

echo ${v_args[0]}
echo ${v_args[1]}

$ ./myScript -v abc -v 123
abc
123

Notice also that "s" has no arguments (f:v:s).
Thanks Scot for all your help Smilie
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