[HPADM] SUMMARY: Processing variable number of arguments in ksh scripts:

From: Abramson, Stuart (SAbramson_at_Wabtec.com)
Date: 10/24/03

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    hpux-admins:

    Question below.

    Thanks to :
            Mike Blanchette
            Brent Cramer
            Harry Pfeffer
            Sabrina Lautier
            Mitry Matyushkov

    Sabrina suggested the simplest solution, below.

            #!/usr/bin/ksh
            for arg in $*; do
              print $arg
            done

    Other suggest the use of "shift":

            #!/usr/bin/ksh

            echo "Number of parameters is " $#

            while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
            echo $1
            shift
            done

    Stuart Abramson | Off: 412/825-1434 | Cell: 412/417-1567 | email:
    sabramson@wabtec.com

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Sabrina Lautier [mailto:slautier@amadeus.net]
    Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:19 AM
    To: Abramson, Stuart
    Subject: Re: [HPADM] Processing variable number of arguments in ksh
    scripts:

    This should do the work:

    #!/usr/bin/ksh
    for arg in $*; do
      print $arg
    done

    Rgds

    Sabrina Lautier
    Amadeus SAS
    DEV-IIS-OAU-SYS
    +33 (0)4 97 23 09 56
    slautier@amadeus.net

    From: "Abramson, Stuart" <SAbramson@Wabtec.com>@DutchWorks.nl on
           24/10/2003 11:09 AST

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    hpux-admins:

    I want to process a variable number of arguments to a ksh script one at a
    time:

                 ksh script.ksh arg1 agr2 ... argN

    where:

                 ##
                 # script.ksh
                 #

                 for each argument
                 do
                             symdev -sid -XXX -sa 03b write_disable $ARGX
    -noprompt
                 done

    where $ARGX is each argument 1 to N one at a time.

    How does one do that?

    I don't know how many there will be at each call. There must be one
    minimum.

    I think you do this with "shift", somehow....

                 Stuart

    Stuart Abramson | Off: 412/825-1434 | Cell: 412/417-1567 | email:
    sabramson@wabtec.com

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