Hi,
I am using getopts to parse various options, however the script always requires an arg that I do not want to force the user to use a switch with.
Code:
while getopts "dfh" options
do
case "$options" in
h) usage
;;
f) force=1
;;
d) debug=1
;;
esac
done
mydata=${$OPTIND} # this line (obviously) fails
so I want to be able to call it like so;
Code:
myscript 10.1.1.0
getopts seems to tell me the location where the info I want is in, $OPTIND, but I can't seem to actually use that to get the data. The location is also in $#.
In the above case $OPTIND contains 1 but how do I actually extract the contents of $1 without knowing that it is in position $1 ? the script *may* have been called like so;
Code:
myscript -f 10.1.1.0
in which case I'd need the contents of $2
How do I extract the contents of the last arg without specifying a switch for that arg? The OPTIND line at the end does not work as bash does not do that type of substitution, well not in that way anyway
The only way I have thought of atm is to parse $@ using awk to extract the last entry but that seems rather messy and it may be that the supplied arg has spaces etc.
Lastly, being restricted to scripts that will work on RHEL3 the script can only use functions available from bash 2.05b or later.
I hope my babble here is clear enough
Many thanks,
DW
