What's going on everyone? I have this assignment in my Linux Operating System class and im having a little trouble. It asks me to,
Write a Bash shell script called chkread that takes an unlimited number of arguments that all represent file names.
I have come up with this so far, but i don't think it's exactly what the professor is looking for.
~$ cat MY_SCRIPT
#!/bin/bash
echo ${unlimited arguments}
~$ bash MY_SCRIPT cat dog horse
cat dog horse
You could use something like this to handle multiple arguments in a bash script.
#!/bin/bash
file_names=("$@")
for name in "${file_names[@]}"; do
echo "$name"
done
And then when you call the script:
bash chkread.sh file1 file2 file3 file4
The script will print them to output:
file1
file2
file3
file4
But this is just an example. Inside the script you can do with them whatever you need to do.
Use $*. That will give you everything. For example:
#!/bin/bash
file_names=$*
echo $file_names
Output:
jbanks@efsappdev1:~$ x.sh `ls *.sql`
current.sql goop.sql latest.sql long.sql report.sql
jbanks@efsappdev1:~$ x.sh one two three
one two three
"$@".