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Old 01-16-2014
Invoke Function WithOut Non-Positional Arguments

Hello Everyone,

Is there a way i can pass the arguments as parameters or variables instead of positional arguments to a function, below i am calling the function defined in a script.

Call:
Code:
notify "Error While Generating The List File: ${GEN_PARAM_LIST9} For Feed Data Validation Errors In Main" "${GEN_PARAM_LOG9}" "${LOG_FILE}"

Can I do the call like below, because my call sometimes i would just call with only subject and i don't want to include a log file, sometimes i want to put Cc and sometimes don't want Cc. So I would like to have a better control on how i call or invoke instead of doing positional parameter passing as it would mess up my scripts and lot of maintenance. How do i do that?

Code:
noticy s="Error While Generating The List File: ${GEN_PARAM_LIST9} For Feed Data Validation Errors In Main" L1="${GEN_PARAM_LOG9}"  L2="${LOG_FILE}"


Script:
Code:
### Function To Send An Email
notify()
{
#This Function Arguments Should Follow Below Order Only
# $1 - Subject
# $2 - File(Message Body)
# $3 - File(Message Attachment)

if [ ! -z "$3" ]
then
        /usr/bin/mutt -s "$1" -i "$2" -a "$3" "$EMAIL_LIST"</dev/null
        elif [ ! -z "$2" ]
        then
                /usr/bin/mutt -s "$1" -a "$2" "$EMAIL_LIST"</dev/null
                elif [ ! -z "$1" ]
                then
                        /usr/bin/mutt -s "$1" "$EMAIL_LIST"</dev/null
                        else
                                /usr/bin/mutt -s "Error No Subject/Argument" "$EMAIL_LIST"</dev/null
fi
}


Thank you.
# 2  
Old 01-16-2014
For shell functions there is the same parameter passing convention in place as for scripts: you can use positional parameters, meaning that their position define their function - like the first parameter is a name, the second an address, the third a phone number, etc..

You can use options instead, which will work regardless of their position because they are qualified. The following commands will lead to the same values being passed:

Code:
command -a aVal -b bVal -c cVal
command -b bVal -a aVal -c cVal
command -c cVal -a aVal -b bVal

Here, the values "aVal", "bVal" and "cVal" are "qualified" by introducing them with certain switches, therefore their position - first, second or third - doesn't matter. There is an utility for decoding such commandlines, which is called getopt/getopts. It is as well an executable as a shell builtin (at least in common shells), both word the same way. I suggest you read the man page of it and ask again if you have further questions.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 
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