> I remember a long time ago, I saw
> somebody pass an argument to a script
> from prompt. As far as I remember, the
> person was dialing different locations,
> and didn't want to edit the script's
> variable by editing the file every time
> he wanted to dial.
Put this in a file
#!/bin/sh
echo "First arg is \"$1\"."
echo "Second arg is \"$2\"."
echo "All args are: \"$*\"."
And then run "chmod 770 myfile"
and then try ./myfile some command line args
and you should have enough to get going.
If you are coming from DOS, $1 is an analog for %1. There is no DOS
equivalent to the $* idiom, which is very handy for saying "pass everything
on the script's command line to another script/program whatever.
Running man bash will give you more secrets.
HTH,
DL
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