Hi -- Working on my own through the book "Learning the KornShell and came to task 4-1, which there is:
a script "highest" and it will sort an "album" file.
highest filename
The author mentions adding a header line to the scripts output if the user types in the -h option. It says "assume the option ends up in the variable "header" i.e $header is -h"
If user runs the script with -h, it will produce a header on the output that reads "Album Artist" and a new line" if the -h option is not used there is no header or new line.
From the book:
The expression
${header:+"Albums Artist\n")
yields null if the variable header is null or "Albums Artist\n" is not null.
we can put the line:
print -n ${header:+"Albums Artist\n"}
My problem is i do not know how to make $header relate to the -h option. It says "assume....." but i want to follow along and run the script. Tried the man pages, but no luck. If you have any ideas please respond. Thanks.
Ok thanks to the both of you. I was able find a "go_test" script to use as a work around to print a header when using the -h option using the getopts. The album sort script works well. However when i try to combine them into one script, it messes up the sort -n and header options. If you have any suggestions please let me know.
vi albums
go_test -h
vi go_test
highest albums [howmany]
howmany default is 10
vi highest
What does your complete script look like? Also, what are your expected arguments now? It looks like you have a 'highest' parameter rather than just outputting a header.
The script name is highest
The first required parameter is "filename" and the filename here is "albums". If no "filename" is provided a message is displayed.
The second parameter is an optional number [how many] meaning how many albums/artist do you want to display (default of 10).
There is also a requirement that if the user uses the -h option, it would create a header "ALBUMS ARTIST" + newline, and if the -h is not used as an option, then no header or new line would exist, but the rest of the script will run. If the user enters a different option such as -a, an invalid option message is displayed. My file "albums" is above, but here is the entire script and also the output with the messages. Note when i run the script without the -h it runs great, minus the header. When run it with -h, i have problems. Thanks again.
First: you output the header line to <stderr> and the rest to <stdout>. This is possible, but <stderr>, as the name suggests, is for error messages and even if it does what you expect it to do you should reconsider.
Second: you haven't specified a certain shell to use (which you should indeed do), but your usage of "print" suggests you using a Kornshell. You do not need I/O-redirection in this case, Kornshells "print"-statement knows the parameter "-u<descriptor>", so that:
will do the same as
Further, you do not need the "\n" at the end, print automatically adds a newline if you skip the "-n" option, which suppresses exactly that. Lastly, you should routinely use the "-" as the last option to make sure the string you want to print doesn't end up as being interpreted as parameter:
will work even if "text to print" would be replaced by text containing legal options to print, which would otherwise break your code. Here is an example:
Finally, I'd like to quote your first post:
Quote:
From the book:
The expression
${header:+"Albums Artist\n")
yields null if the variable header is null or "Albums Artist\n" is not null.
we can put the line:
print -n ${header:+"Albums Artist\n"}
My problem is i do not know how to make $header relate to the -h option.
Now that you know how to relate the "header" variable with the "-h" option you should not just copy what you found on the net, but put that mechanism to use for your own goals. Define a variable "header" and either put "-h" in there or not, depending on the "-h"-option being invoked or not. This should not be too hard, given that you now know how to use "getopts". Then use what is mentioned in your book to get what you want.
Here is a tip: you can look at the code while it executes and see what the shell really sees by using the "set -xv" command. Swithc that on with "set -xv" and off with "set +xv", like this:
Save this to "myscript.ksh", slap on the excution bit and try it with:
Tracing messages arrive at <stderr> and are first redirected to <stdout> ("2>&1"), then output is paginated by "more", which is not necessary in case of the short sample. For longer script parts, though, it is.
As "set +/- xv" only switches on and off tracing you can add it to interesting parts of scripts, watch what they do and move these commands around to inspect other parts. I do that regularly in my own scripts as part of my debugging routine.
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