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So my question is how can I pass a file argument to my bash script using a Terminal command in Linux? At the moment I'm trying to make a program in bash that can take a file argument from the Terminal ...

I want to write a bash script which takes different arguments. It should be used like normal linux console programs: my_bash_script -p 2 -l 5 -t 20 So the value 2 should be saved in a variable called ...

I need to write a bash script, and would like it to parse unordered parameters of the format: scriptname --param1 <string> --param2 <string> --param3 <date> Is there a simple way to ...

I am new to bash scripting and I need your support to solve this problem. I have a bash script "start.sh". I want to write a script with two arguments so that I could run the script in the following ...

I am new to bash. Need suggestion for the following problem. So I want to execute the script in this way ./myscript --bootstrap bootstrap.exe --vmmount ./vmmount --image /dev/sdb2 --target-exe ...

I written the following script which gets name of a file and then assemble and link the file. But it doesn't work. What is the problem with it? EXPECTED_ARGS=2 if [ $# -ne $EXPECTED_ARGS ] then ...

I'm writing a simple bash script and I would like it to accept parameters from the command line in any order. I've browsed around the web and wrote a simple function with a case statement in a while ...

So I've been reading around about getopts, getopt, etc. but I haven't found an exact solution to my problem. The basic idea of the usage of my script is: ./program [-u] [-s] [-d] <TEXT> Except ...

Here is my Bash script. Assuming that : 1) go.sh is the script to execute 2) the user will launch the script this way # ./go.sh -v file1.txt file2.txt or # ./go.sh --verbose file1.txt file2.txt 3)...

I have a bash script in which I want to check if a flag with value was passed to it and then use the value in a variable. Something like this (pseudocode): file.sh -c 1.0.0 inside file.sh : #!/bin/...

I am having problem allowing my script to take more than three arguments. My script will take commands like this, for example: ./myscript.sh -i -v -r filename so far if it only takes two arguments ...

When writing Bash scripts, how can I obtain a value from the command-line when provided as part of option flags in the command line? For example in the following: ./script --value=myText --...

hello all newbie here :D i am working on a project right now which involves a script that handles a *.dat file.The script runs under specific commands inputed by user my problem is that i cant ...

I have a loop to parse command line arguments. Everything works fine if -d or -b argument has a parameter. But when I pass -d or -b without a parameter, the script gets into infinite loop. # Parse ...

Basically I am making a script where I would like to give a list of parameters to some option, say -l, eg: usr@domain:$./somescript -l hi bye cry nigh The list specified to -l would be then stored ...