topic Re: Calling a script with a list in Operating System - HP-UX

Calling a script with a list

Leo The Cat — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:03:04 GMT

Hi

Here the call
/test/myscript.ksh user1 user2 user3 ....

The list of user is not defined

How to read all parameters in a loop ?

if the list was in a file no problem but I want this list coming thru the commad line ....

How to do the tric ?

Bests regards
Den

Re: Calling a script with a list

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:10:19 GMT

Hi Den:

#!/bin/sh
for X in $@
do
echo ${X}
shift
done

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Calling a script with a list

Steven Schweda — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:27:21 GMT

> shift

This buys you what, exactly?

Re: Calling a script with a list

Dennis Handly — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:42:18 GMT

>Steven: This buys you what, exactly?

Right, not so much, unless you are working on $1.

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

Re: Calling a script with a list

Leo The Cat — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:02:58 GMT

JRF's solution is doing the trick perfectly !
Thanks again

Re: Calling a script with a list

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:22:03 GMT

Hi (again) Den:

As already noted, the 'shift' I imposed is meaningless unless you wanted to reference '$1'. I was oscillating between using the 'for' and a 'while' loop along the lines Dennis wrote.

Regards!

...JRF...