BASH Function

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3 comments, last by sgm 16 years, 10 months ago

100

Author

June 13, 2007 03:59 PM

ok say you have something like this


function function_A()
{
variable=$2
}

function_A "Hello World This is a Test"

the thing is what if you want variable to equal "World This is a Test" how would you do that? variable=$2 sets variable equal to "World"

138

June 13, 2007 04:26 PM

Use cut(1):

function function_A() {variable=$(echo $1 | cut -f2- -d' ' -)}

This should be in "Everything Unix".

[Edited by - sgm on June 13, 2007 6:26:23 PM]

100

Author

June 13, 2007 04:31 PM

when i do that I get this error =Hello: command not found

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June 13, 2007 05:34 PM

I think you can use $*

It captures all the arguments to a bash script, might do the same for functions...

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138

June 13, 2007 06:11 PM

Oh, oops.

There wasn't supposed to be a '$' in front of 'variable'.

(I was hacking Perl at the time, so...)

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