Scripting Question:

[Garrett Klein]

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Steve,

	Try this.
#!/bin/bash
echo -e $# arguments passed
echo -e "$*"

HTH.

Garrett

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:20:09PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> Kirk,
> 
> When I tried your solution, I get echo'ed what has been passed to the
> script. However, I don't know how arguments were passed to the script at
> this point.
> trythis 1 2 3 4 5
> returns:
> 1 2 3 4 5
> 
> This is what I passed to the script, but it doesn't tell me that I
> passed 5 parameters to the script.
> 
> Is there a simple way to get this information, or am I going to have to
> parse the string $* to determine how many words are on it. 
> 
> Kirk, a second question stemming from your response:
> KR: It is very simple you just $* instead of $0.  If you enclose it in
> quotes you will also get arguments which are meant to be together.
> Does this mean that if I put something like 
> -l logfilename
> that these 2 words would bee seen as one parameter?
> 
> Do you have a script example that I could look at?
> 
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
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