Questions tagged [arguments]
An argument is usually defined as the actual value passed to a function, procedure, or command line program.
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What is the colon in postgres' process command-lines?
For example Postgres process command-lines are like
postgres 794 1 0 Nov06 ? 00:00:03 /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.3/data -p 5432
postgres 857 794 0 Nov06 ? ...
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How can I modify this script so that I can add multiple users by providing arguments?
How can I modify this script so that I can add multiple users by providing arguments (usernames) in the command line instead?
I know at the very least I need to remove the read options. I don't want ...
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Get argument position given its value in a bash script
How can I get the position of an argument by using its value?
For example:
myScript.sh hello world
echo "$1"
hello
How can I get the position of 'hello', which is 1 in this case?
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How to provide condition to the parameter
While providing external parameter values should have before and after hyphen. If hyphen is not there it should reflect the error stating that the hyphen should be needed before and after the text.
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How to pass argument to a for loop from a file and run in parallel, and create log for each argument
for test in "${a[@]}"
do
sh ansiblescript.sh -s $a
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "Success"
else
echo "Failed"
exit 1
fi
done
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Find with optional parenthesised arguments
How to add optional grouped argument lists to find?
For example, using an array of base arguments that define files that will always be found, no matter what other variable conditions are specified.
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Assign default var if no argument, otherwise treat var like its not there?
I've got a sync script that runs a few rsync and rclone commands. I'd like to add an easy way to run the script in dry mode by default by passing the '-n' switch. I'm running into an issue with this ...
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Capture arguments after PIPE in a bash script as string
I am writing a simple script (well, I thought it would be simple) to gather and log a 'reason' for using sudo. That part is working pretty straightforward based on another article I found (https://...
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How to pass an array whose elements contain spaces from a script to a function in bash/zsh?
I'm using the zsh shell but would like solution that would also work in bash.
I have a script and a function I want to use together.
The script myfilter:
#!/bin/bash
result=()
for arg in "$@&...
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Secure transfer of arguments to a program (dash/bash)
Transfer via stdin
#!/bin/dash
echo 'password' | program -
Transfer via stdin using an intermediate variable
var_pass=$(echo 'password')
echo $var_pass | program -
unset var_pass
Transfer via ...
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Help understanding Bash command-line argument parsing code
I want to take two arguments and a third optional one for a script I am developing. I am new working with bash so I have been copying and trying to understand the following code that does what I want (...
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Parse comma- and colon-separated numbers into to array values in Bash script
I have a Bash script for deploying a service. It needs an update in the form of an additional command line argument for specifying ports for launching multiple instances of the service. The argument ...
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How to run all command line arguments via another shell?
I have a script tempenv which I'd like to use as follows:
$ tempenv ls -l
tempenv looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
setarch ... /bin/bash -c $@
However, it doesn't work as I intend. Instead, it only ...
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What does crontab do when I give no argument?
I accidentally typed this command without any arguments and hit enter, and it seems the terminal is running something, so my question is what crontab do when I give no arguments?
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Checking for numeric arguments
I want to check function arguments, and check whether $2 and $3 are numeric
Is the following line the way to use the AND statement? Am I using = the correct way to check for numeric digits?
if [[ &...
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How to check arguments given to a bash script efficiently?
I wrote a bash script but since I'm a self-learner bash rookie, I wanted to ask if I can check the given arguments more efficiently. I also googled about this and checked topics here but the examples ...
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How to properly parse a quoted arg-list string in a shell script?
Summary
How to convert a single string a "b" 'c d' $'e\nf' into separate arguments, respecting quotes and preserving whitespaces and newlines?
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I'm trying to read and process the ...
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Alternatives to getopts for referencing flag next to argument
So I'm currently writing a script that takes arguments next to options to assigns them to variables. From the command line it'd look something like this
>> ./myscript.sh --gpu 2 --cpu 12 --mem ...
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Why does using subprocess not give complete output for grep?
I am trying to use subprocess.check_output() to grep my a Git repo, but the output differs from when I run grep in my terminal.
When I grep in my terminal it gives around 100 lines of output, but when ...
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AWK Command Argument Error
I have a dataset which contains contact information of students, the sample data set is as follows
First Name, Last Name, Address, Phone Number
John, Doe, "House # 11, Street xyz, Road, Area"...
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passing arguments inside quote, e.g. screen -dm ' ls /home/$dir1 '
I use the following script
#!/bin/bash
echo 'Please enter the password of your XXXX:'
read -sp 'Password:' password
screen -dm bash -c ' BLABLA '
Problem is that my commands in BLABLA include the ...
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Argument list too long while generating txt file which includes file names in a directory [closed]
I am trying to write all of the file names in the directory into txt file.
I used the command,
ls /path/of/directory/ > file_name_list.txt
But it gives error
ls: cannot open directory /path/of/...
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In the synopsis of a man page, what do ellipses following brackets mean? [duplicate]
The following image is from the POSIX documentation's section on Utility Argument Syntax.
My question is this: Are the two argument forms in the image more or less identical, besides one using the ...
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Detecting getopts `--` (double dash) to issue a message
I am using the customary way of using getopts through a variable named arg. I can capture the option names as follows. Is it possible to detect the moment getopts reaches "--" so that I ...
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Using a script that opens vim in terminal instead of gvim (is ita bad idea?)
On my system i only have vim installed, not gvim. I am also using qutebrowser. In qutebrowser you can set a command to open your editor to edit some text. Due to how it quotes commands, it seems not ...
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bash - Script to output domains MX-es using arguments
I am trying to make a bash script that shows me the domains MX-es of one or more domains given as arguments when running it. Example script call:
./domains.sh domain1.com domain-no-mx.com domain2.net ...
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Does ${@:-1} really return last argument?
I am running the following code when I have two arguments
if (( $# == 2 )); then
: ${fdir:="${@:-1}"}
pfm -w2 "" "unspecified -d option"
echo "use last ...
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How to introduce support for command line options in a script that is written to use positional arguments?
I have a script that is currently used with positional arguments, like this:
./script.sh fname lname address
I want to also support ordinary command line options when I call this script, so that I ...
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Passing file types to bash function and calling find
I have the following bash function to print between two line numbers, for files watching file types .texi and .org recursively in a particular directory.
I would like to be able to supply the file ...
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Checking bash function arguments
I would like to check if two arguments to a bash function are numeric, and the last argument is a directory that exists.
Have done like this, but the implementation is quite insufficient.
if [[ $1 =~...
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Adding help option for function
I have the following function that print NUM lines from the beginning of a set of files.
The command (function, script, whatever) accepts a variable number of arguments, and I would like to reserve ...
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Extract multiple files at once in the terminal
I have a directory containing hundreds of zip files. I want to be able to select about fifty files and extract them all at once using unzip (or 7z) in the terminal. The files have completely different ...
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how to pass python arguments to a bsub file
I am working with the bsub job submission system from Platform LSF. I need to submit job scripts, but I am running into a problem with passing arguments to the python file that im using in the job ...
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split argument and create a new variables
My argument look like: My_Submit.sh May5_2014 and I want to create
a new variable inspired from the argument, this variable should look
like May14_5.
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process input arguments to a bash script
I'm processing files with a bash script $ processh.sh file. The input file contains information about the files to process
# id path type
id1 filename1 csv
id2 filename2
id3 filename3 json
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Shift: Is there a global version?
in order to parse the arguments list I tried to implement a common top-down parsing scheme.
I wondered why my eat() function wouldn't work. Because the positional arguments $1, $2, $3, ... are in the ...
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How to preserve spaces in args when running $@ with eval
I'm writing a bash script that runs everything passed to it. I want it to work like so:
$ ./myscript.sh echo hello world
# should run 'echo hello world'
This is my script thus far:
#!/bin/bash
eval &...
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.desktop file KDE Service menu - how to copy many files
I have a servicemenuitem for KDE which copies the selected file to the desktop.
It works when one file is selected on the desktop, but when multiple files are selected, they are not copied.
The -exec ...
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Using the "$@" special args in a new bash command (bash -c)
I am trying to run a bash -c command relying on the parent bash scripts arguments via "$@"
When running a normal command, I use "$@" and bash does the expand magic for each arg.
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Run executable on background detached from terminal but with arguments
I can run an executable in the background and detach it from the terminal with these commands:
$ nohup ./executable &
or
$ ./executable &
$ disown
But none work if I send arguments to the ...
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Passing arguments to a command safely
It is well known that it's a bad idea to do something of the kind <command> $FILENAME, since you can have a file whose name is for example -<option> and then instead of executing <...
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cd does not take variable as argument in bash script [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a bash script that will give me a command that will take a number n as argument and change the directory to the nth directory listed by running ls in the working directory. Here's ...
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How to make sftp output a working sftp prompt after the connection from CLI arguments is created?
I get a program that stays in input state, the user can type characters but they are useless.
The following are the command and the output. After this, the terminal prints the keys pressed.
~ sftp -...
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What is ${@:$#} exactly?
I tried to to run echo ${@:$#} and it echoes my current shell.
I found out that echo ${#} echoes 0.
I didn't find any resources about the results.
I am trying to understand that part so I can ...
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How to sort command name + arguments output of ps in solaris
Below is my sample output of ps command in solaris
myuser 26856 0.0 0.1 1716368 118576 ? S Feb 18 2:17 /web/bea/platform1221/jdk1.8.0_221/bin/java -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security....
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How to get the filename from an array of absolute paths of filenames
I have a shell script that needs to delete the file names from the /tmp directory. The file names must be detected from a list of file names passed to my script.
./deletetmpfiles.sh /var/moht/test1....
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How can I identify file names and directories from logs of Unix commands?
I have a data-set of Unix commands as input into terminal and I want to use them to compare user behaviours.
Different users interact with different directories and files (they are all on separate ...
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Append all files in a directory as cli arguments
I need to run a command that looks like this
mycli --file test.zip --file another_test.zip
How could I run that dynamically with all zip files in a directory? I'm sure I could pipe the files from a ...
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Need cp -ax alternate for Solaris
On my Linux host; this cp command helps copy files and folders both while preserving the timestamp and permissions cp -ax <source file/folder> <destination>
Need similar command for SunOS ...
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bash script with optional input arguments using getopt
I have copied code from tutorialspoint's getopt article and got the following script to work (sort of):
##argument_script.sh
VARS=`getopt -o i::o:: --long input::,output:: -- "$@"`
eval set ...
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