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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Script with more than one flag
I am trying to create a script that lowercases/uppercases files or directories.
modify [-r] [-l|-u] <dir/file names...>
I am currently using getopts to check for flags. However, I can't run ...
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Passing arguments from one script to another
Let's say I am in a Bash script and am sourcing a file. How do I pass variables to another script after I source the file like this.
sed -i 's/ = /=/' $file
source $file
Let's say file contains
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How to pass list of arguments into a function
I want to pass arguments from a loop into a function func. For simplicity let's say we are working with the loop
for x in {1..5}
do
for y in {a..c}
do
echo $x$y
done
done
I'm just ...
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Can a subshell fetch an argument within the parent shell scope?
I want to run different versions of a utility onto the same data like so:
current_dir$ (cd my_utility_version_dir && exec ./my_util my_data_file)
Is there a way for my_util to look for ...
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How to split a string argument in a bash over multiple lines without adding space
I'm running the following command:
some_command --flag "foo\
bar\
quux" arg2
This causes the string to be passed as foo\tbar\tquux.
I'm looking for a way to have this argument passed ...
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How to execute local script by passing arguments on remote via ssh as a different user?
I am trying to execute a local script on remote server via ssh using keytab authentication. I am able to connect to remote via ssh as sachin(user who gets the ticket) and then I am spawning a bash ...
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Stop a program from reading argument
I ran into an issue where I am using a wrapper around a compiler to do static code analysis.
The command looks like:
sourceanalyzer -b Program clang -E File
The -E argument is for the clang ...
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DOS command to Bash command conversion
I need to make Bash take DOS commands in with arguments and then convert the main command to a Bash command and still use the arguments if there are any arguments.
The part I am lost on is how to ...
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What does the -l argument mean in tcsh?
I'm running a tcsh shell.
I have questions about the -l option in set -l.
When I look at man for the set command, I don't see the -l argument.
When using tcsh shell, what does the -l argument mean?
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Why is it uncommon for stdin inputs to have option-like inputs, while common for command line arguments?
POSIX and GNU have their syntax styles for options.
For all the commands that I have seen, they accept option-like inputs as command line arguments.
Is it uncommon for a program to accept option-...
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What's going on with this dash '-' thing?
I was trying to export the Python environment requirements and this is what I intended to do:
conda list -e > requirements.txt
However I mistakenly typed this instead:
conda list -e -> ...
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Shell Function: Sequence of Pipelines as Argument
I have a shell function (in .bashrc) which creates a temp file, executes the arguments (including all sequence of pipelines), redirects it to a temp file and then open it in VS Code.
I invoke the ...
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Passing generated empty strings as command line arguments
I do the following:
$ ./input ""
Output:
argc 2
argv[1][0] 0
But if I want to pass (several) empty quotes in program based manner:
$ python -c 'print "\"\""'
""
./input $(python -c 'print "\"\""'...
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How can I generate arguments to another command via command substitution
Following on from:
unexpected behaviour in shell command substitution
I have a command which can take a huge list of arguments, some of which can legitimately contain spaces (and probably other ...
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How to have a script work with “$@” or a default list of parameters while not breaking paths with whitespace?
I want a script that will run another utility over some default paths if no parameters are passed to it; ideally I want this safe for paths that contain spaces.
So far I have script.sh:
#!/bin/sh
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Understanding the combination of ufw --force enable
I rent a remote machine with Debian/Ubuntu and desire to filter all ports I don't use through iptables via ufw.
The only ports I allow (both with TCP and UPD) are 22,25,80,443.
If I understand man ...
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Require command line argument for script to run [closed]
I'm trying to require a script to only run if the command line argument provided is a specific text file called dailyUserProcs.20181203 in the same directory as the script. I am also running Putty.
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'rename' with expression|replacement with a leading '-' (hyphen|minus)
I have many files like xyz_123_foo.ext for which I would like to add -bar to the filenames at the end to result in xyz_123_foo-bar.ext. I tried:
rename . -bar. xyz_*
which resulted in:
rename: ...
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How to distinguish between a positional parameter and an option?
Both a positional parameter ($1, $2, and so forth) and an option (and/or argument) are both written directly after a command, so what is the definition or phrasing to explain how to distinct them?
In ...
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Does Konsole permit launching a terminal with a custom font-size on the command-line?
If I want to launch a Konsole can I do so with a font-size of 30px rather than the default?
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Where can I configure Chromium's default command line arguments?
I've seen lots of places people have suggested to store command line arguments,
~/.config/google-chrome-flags.conf
~/.config/chromium-flags.conf
/etc/default,
My version of chromium doesn't seem to ...
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Read arguments separated by newline
I have a script and I receive data from stdin as an argument separated by newlines say I have
string1,string2
string3,string4
And I want to take sperately string1,string2 and string3,string4.
But I ...
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How to make my bash function known to external program
I have bash functions foo and bar in my ~/.bashrc.
Function foo calls an external command ext_command that itself takes as one of its arguments another command. I want to pass bar as that command, i....
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Calling sh with script on stdin and passing command line arguments
This works of course. I can run ./test1.sh cats and the argument cats is passed correctly to ls.
$ cat test1.sh
#!/bin/sh
ls -l $1
Can you tell me how do I make this second example — the same ...
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Are `-name` and `-exec` options or non-option arguments of `find`?
Are -name and -exec options or non-option arguments of find? They look like short options, and they are called find expressions, if I am not mistaken. For example,
find . -name "*.txt" -exec echo {} ...
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find -exec {} + argument list limit
I know that when the maximum argument list size is reached, xargs keeps creating new lists until all of the files are included;
but does find -exec <command> {} + do the same thing or will it ...
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Does the system-wide limit on argument count apply in shell functions?
The other question asks about the limit on building up commands by find's -exec ... {} +. Here I'd like to know how those limits compare to shells' inner limits. Do they mimic system limits or are ...
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How does the find command know how many arguments to feed with “-exec … {} +”?
In a command like this:
find /data ! -type d -exec rm -f {} +
the + is for batch execution of rm -f. find should batch as many arguments as possible. But how does it know the limit?
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Argument list too long error with makefile
In a makefile, I have
@echo "$(IGNORE_DIRS) $(CLEAN_FILES) $(CLEAN_DIRS) $(REALCLEAN_FILES)" | tr ' ' '\n' >> $@
The problem is that $(CLEAN_FILES) is quite large, so when I run make, I get
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Partially use the -y argument when installing things in Debian in one line
I have a long apt-get install sequence and for most software packages I need the -y argument.
I could do the following in two lines:
apt-get upgrade unattended-upgrades sshguard curl wget git ...
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How can I provide an array as a file argument to a script, so that each element is like a line in a file?
Suppose a bash script expects an argument to be a file. But we have a bash array, and would like to provide the array in some way as an argument to the script, as if there were a file whose lines are ...
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First argument passed to wrapper script is ignored
So I've got the following script:
#!/bin/bash
echo '-------------------------'
echo $0
echo $1
echo $@
echo '-------------------------'
exec su -- someuser -c "/tmp/elasticsearch-6.4.2/bin/...
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does bash `shift` command change argument count `$#`
When I use the bash shift command, does that change the argument count in $#?
Note from author: When I had this question I did not find it (yet) on this community. Therefore I simply tried it and ...
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How to pass multiple parameters to su <USER> -c “command”
I want to execute composer as non root user. So I renamed main composer executable file to composer-call and then create another executable file called composer.
#composer.sh
su nginx -c "composer-...
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xargs argument in the middle of command [duplicate]
Why is this command not working?
echo 'foo
bar' | xargs -I % -L 1 echo yeah % yeah
It produces the following output:
yeah % yeah foo
yeah % yeah bar
While I expected the following output:
yeah ...
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How to pass argv arguments to a C program using a file or python script in linux?
I used to be able to pass input to C program by first writing a python script and using pipe to send it to the C program as an input
or write the output of python script to a file and just doing r &...
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How to detach-sign a file with a specific private key? || Why this fails?
I have a .tar.xz file which I would like to detach-sign using my gpg private key.
The problem is, I have multiple of private keys imported to my keyring and need to choose, which one to use.
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How to parse arguments with space inside bash function
In bash I am calling function:
myFunction "1 2"
myFunction()
{
echo "$1"
echo "$2"
}
this prints me "1 2" and empty row. How I can parse arguments so it will print on one row 1 and ...
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Optional commands for bash script
I have a Bash script that sets various environment variables and runs a program. I want one of those variables to change if I run the command with an argument debug.
I know 100% how to do this in Lua ...
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Escape keywords with tmux send
Using tmux to send commands along from one terminal to another, I realize that
$ tmux send -t mySession "text" ENTER
correctly sends text, but
$ tmux send -t mySession "up" ENTER
sends text again, ...
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Using the 'a' and 'c' options with the 'dash' command in Unix [closed]
What do the options 'a' and 'c' do when there are used with the command 'dash'? I was unable to understand what that command actually does! I have tried reading the man page but didn't exactly ...
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Pass function argument to defined variable
How can I "inject" a function argument to a defined variable like in this example?
mood="i am $1 happy"
happy ()
{
echo "$mood"
}
happy "very"
Current output:
i am happy
Desired output:
i ...
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Why does my script not take command arguments?
I have a script:
#!/bin/sh
function usage() {
cat << EOF >&2
Usage: $0 [-h] [-rs <start_num>] [-re <end_num>]
-h: help: displays list of options for command $0
-rs<...
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Moving random files using shuf and mv - Argument list too long
I have a directory containing nearly 250K files, which are lots of files, and I want to move x random files to another directory.
I searched and I got the solution of using the shuf and mv commands ...
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How to handle options when opening a file passed as argument? [closed]
I am trying to open a file through a script; as long as I pass the file as the first argument there are no problems; for instance:
$ cat textExample.txt
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear ...
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Generating quoted command arguments
I'm working with a HTTP API that demands a very particular set of signed headers + JSON body. And I really want to cURL it for debugging and sanity in general.
So, I've written a small script that, ...
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Creating n variables in Bash without assigning them one by one?
How do I create n variables in shell scripts without explicitly assigning them? What I mean is something like a loop that creates var1, var2, var3,...,varx, where x is a variable I set earlier, ...
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capture output from java
I am trying to do that :
#!/bin/bash
set out=$(java -jar -Xmx1024m myJava.jar '$1' '$2' '$3' '$4')
echo "$out"
python myPython.py $out
but with no success... I tried with and without quote (because ...
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Keeping quotes passed to a perl wrapper script
I'm writing a small perl wrapper to setup environment variables, etc., then invoke a command by the same name.
./foo.pl -a one -b two -c "1 2 3" -d done
When I output @ARGV, the "" around 1 2 3 have ...
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Bash : Give builded array to function as a list of argument?
I have this issue with borgbackup, but because the reaction is the same, I will use rsync in my example.
I want to build an array of arguments by adding a prefix to each, and then give that array to ...
