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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am writing a script to pass the getopts argument to the function which I have. But it as soon as I execute the script, the argument is taking it as blank. I tried using multiple way to check but its not working.
Can someone please let me know what wrong in this code.
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I'm "currently" (for the last ~2weeks) writing a script to build ffmpeg with some features from scratch.
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while getopts v OPTION
do
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*) exit 1;;
esac
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Suppose I have script tmp.sh
Whose Signature is tmp.sh <fixed_argument>
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
EDIT: -- SOLVED --
Heyas,
Getting used to optargs, but by far not understanding it.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I say one of the options is required? can I use an if statement?
let say:
while getopts ":c:u:fp" opt; do
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Suppose I have a code below .
while getopts a: opt
do
case $opt in
a) app_name="$OPTARG";;
*) echo "$opt is an invalid option";
exit 1;;
?) echo "The value of $OPTARG is an invalid option";
exit 1;;
esac
done
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Unexpectedly, the function below doesn't seem to work
when called a second time. The output shows that when
the function is called the first time, it works as expected
but when it is called a second time, the loop that processes
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a program where I want to use getopts.
I want to use "-i" option and then optionally supply arguments.
If user dosent supply arguments, then also it should work.
Please tell me how to proceed.
Here is some code, this is not right code btw but a sample to understand what I want to... (1 Reply)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
i have part of the scripts below ,getopt for -h or ? not working for me.
can anybody tell me if this sytax right or wrong.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
program=$(basename $0)
#####################################################################################
function usageerr
{
RC=1
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
hey
need help with getopts again.
i am using getopts to read my command line options and arguments. i can manage to do for options that have only one argument
e.g srcipt_name -f 3
i am able to use getopts to do this but i am having problems two accept more than two agruments
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