Shell Programming and Scripting

script -f /path/to/file var1=val1 var2=val2

#!/bin/ksh

# Check that we got args
if [ ${#} -eq 0 ]
then
   echo "Usage is ..."
   exit 255;
fi

# Get filename from first arg
PostFilename=$1
shift

# Handle Args
argNum=1
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
  echo "$1"
  argArray[argNum]=$1
  ((argNum=argNum+1))
  shift
done

# POST file
echo $PostFilename
echo ${argArray[@]}
# curl -X POST -d $PostFilename http://google.com ${argArray[@]}

curl -X POST -d $PostFilename http://google.com $@

#!/bin/ksh

# Check that we got args
if [ ${#} -eq 0 ]
then
   echo "Usage is ..."
   exit 255;
fi

# Get filename from first arg
PostFilename=$1
shift

# Handle Args
argNum=1
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
  echo "$1"
  argArray[argNum]=$1
  ((argNum=argNum+1))
  shift
done

#!/bin/ksh

f_usage ()
{
print -u2 - "Here goes the usage information...."

exit 1
}


f_CheckArg ()
{
# checks a single "arg=val" if it is correctly formed
# checks could be more elaborate than that:

if [ "${1}" == "${1#*=}" ] ; then          # something before the "="?
     return 1
fi
if [ "${1}" == "${1%=*}" ] ; then          # something after the "="?
     return 1
fi

return 0
}


# main ()

typeset chOpt=""                                 # option buffer
typeset chArgs="$*"                              # save cmd line
typeset fIn=""                                   # input file
# typeset achArgs[]                              # arg=val strings

while getopts ":h:f:v:" chOpt ; do               # commandline
     case $chOpt in
          "f")
               if [ -n "$fIn" ] ; then
                    print -u2 - "Do not specify more than one file."
                    exit 2
               fi
               if [ ! -r "$OPTARG" ] ; then
                    print -u2 - "File $OPTARG does not exist or is not readable."
                    exit 2
               fi
               fIn="$OPTARG"
               ;;

          "h")
               f_usage
               ;;

          "?")
               if [ "$chOpt" == "?" -a "$OPTARG" == "?" ] ; then
                    f_usage
               else
                    print -u2 - "unknown option -${OPTARG}"
               fi
               ;;

     esac
done
shift $(( OPTIND -1 ))

if [ -n "$fIn" ] ; then
     print -u2 - "No filename specified, aborting...."
     exit 2
fi

# Handle Args
while [ -n "$1" ] ; do
     if f_CheckArg "$1" ; then   
          typeset achArgs[((${#achArgs[@]}+1))]="$1"
     else
          print -u2 - "argument $1 is not well-formed"
          exit 3
     fi
     shift
done

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