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Ok here is a doubt that I always had. I want to build a script but I want the script to be dinamic whnre is needed and static on the rest.

Here is an example, when I use scp let say i want to have a script to upload images. So the string will look like this:



What I want is to insert files instead of the *.jpg, but at the same time variables might not help unelss they are pre assigned.

I want something like

and use something like $a='file'l; uploadAC OR if there's a way to make the script intelligent enough so I can just put something like:

I hope this explain what I where I want to get at. Thanks.

I'm thinking your alias would be more than a one liner, so you would probably have to alias a function..... which would be a more in depth script that would do what you want.

bash is super intelligent... as long as you make it that way

so let's say you have a script named "uploadFile.sh"

inside that script you would have the following code...


with that code.. you could call the script like...
uploadFile.sh "*.jpg"
or
uploadFile.sh "file1.jpg file2.jpg file3.jpg"
or
uploadFile.sh "file1.jpg"

i think you get the idea...
the "" around the file names is only really needed if you list more than one, or there is a space in the file name

enjoy

Great, this is what I wanted to do. However this is what my newbie feathers show and I just glare with excitement not understanding a bit. Well not really, i want to figure out what you did.

So you put this line:


So I assume uploadList here is a temporary file which will be populated by the "$1" which is another variable yet my first doubt is where it gets it's values from?

Then is the function itself:


Here I am totally lost, where did the cur_file came from what does it has, is this like uploadList?



Ok this line is simple, however I still dont get it, well I see that uploadList file is dumped into done.

Still great help I will look into my BASH tutorials.

Answers are inline below, before the question in code with # to show my new comments:


don't forget to read all the tutorials i have at usalug.org under the scripting and shells section... if you don't have an account at usalug.org... create one... it's well worth it

ok so I finally run the script and well it didnt work, it gave me an error and the issue is:

The error was:


I went to your site but really didnt got the explanation.

did you have the script in the same directory as the jpgs?
if not... include the path...
uploadFile.sh "/path/to/files/*.jpg"

it seemed you wanted to run the script from within the directory of the pictures...