Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
Please help me here while passing the paramert to fuction i am facing problem.
i tryied passing 7 PARAMeter in side single quote,double quate even tried tild sign not working.

how can assign it properly .

usage ()
{
typeset -i NumPARAMs=$1
typeset -i PARAM1=$2
typeset PARAM2=$3
typeset -i PARAM3=$4
typeset -i PARAM4=$5
typeset PARAM5=$6
typeset PARAM6=$7
typeset PARAM7=$8
}

main ()
{
typeset -i NumPARAMs=$#
typeset PARAMeters=$*
usage $NumPARAMs $PARAMeters; [ $? -ne $SUCCESS ] && exit $FAILURE
}

debug log..

+ usage 7 15 5 2013 041190320 ALL "1/03, 1/41, 1/63" 1044
+ typeset -i NumPARAMs=7
+ typeset -i PARAM1=15
+ typeset PARAM2=5
+ typeset -i PARAM3=2013
+ typeset -i PARAM4=041190320
+ typeset PARAM5=ALL
+ typeset PARAM6="1/03,
+ typeset PARAM7=1/41,


output should be
+ check_usage 7 15 5 2013 041190320 ALL "1/03, 1/41, 1/63" 1044
+ typeset -i NumPARAMs=7
+ typeset -i PARAM1=15
+ typeset PARAM2=5
+ typeset -i PARAM3=2013
+ typeset -i PARAM4=041190320
+ typeset PARAM5=ALL
+ typeset PARAM6="1/03, 1/41, 1/63"
+ typeset PARAM7=1044

Thanks In Advance
Nitin

what you get when you specify the 1/03, 1/41, 1/63 passed as

Code:

usage 7 15 5 2013 041190320 ALL 1/03 1/41 1/61 1044

?

once they are passed separately, you could have them re-assembled later and as per your requirement

Hi,
this is raw input data at user side and i am separating that parameter later in shell. so user will provide in that way only.

but the use is going to provide input as "1/03 1/41 1/61".

usage 7 15 5 2013 041190320 ALL "1/03 1/41 1/61" 1044

and param 7 is just example and it may vary each time like anther example "1/04, 1/05, 1/40, 1/95, 1/99, 2/05, 2/06, 2/08, 2/64, 2/95, 2/99, 3/05, 3/06, 3/10, 3/95 3/99"

Ah, you're expecting the shell to evaluate any quotes the user types in. Strings do not work that way. Once you get a quote inside a string, it's a literal character, not shell syntax.

If you want to parse quotes manually, one option is xargs.

Code:

$ xargs -n 1 <<EOF
usage 7 15 5 2013 041190320 ALL "1/03 1/41 1/61" 1044
EOF

usage
7
15
5
2013
041190320
ALL
1/03 1/41 1/61
1044

$

You could do something like

Code:

OLDIFS="$IFS"
IFS="
"
set -- `echo "$USERSTR" | xargs -n 1`
IFS="$OLDIFS"

...to have that string split into $1, $2, ... appropriately.