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porting from AIX's dtksh to Interix's ksh -- input problems
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 porting from AIX's dtksh to Interix's ksh -- input prob... - Mar. 13, '06, 9:57:55 AM
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policyvote
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I'm porting a complex package of scripts from AIX's dtksh to Interix's ksh. I'm a Windows guy who's only been doing UNIX scripting for a few months, and right now I'm getting a real trial by fire.
At the moment, I'm having a problem getting command line parameters to be read into variables.
In AIX, the syntax was this:
somevar=($@)
This would take all of the command line parameters, and then a function was called that would assin the input to the relevant variables. That statement was causing the script to puke with the error "syntax error: `(' unexpected". Stripping off the perens lets the script run, but the parameters don't get read or handed off to the function. I tried:
somevar=${@}
And that works, but only if I put in just one command parameter (several are required).
I may just have to break down and write a
echo: "enter this param" read var kind of a thing. However, anyone have any suggestions to get this to work cleanly?
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RE: porting from AIX's dtksh to Interix's ksh -- input ... - Mar. 14, '06, 11:23:21 PM
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markfunk
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Hard to tell with such a small source code snippet.
If "samevar" was defined as "typeset -A somevar"
then this would be an associative array and this statement would
be assigning each of the positional args into the "somevar" array.
You could try:
set -A somevar -- "$@"
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RE: porting from AIX's dtksh to Interix's ksh -- input ... - Mar. 15, '06, 5:01:56 PM
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policyvote
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Thanks for the help!
I'd considered an array, but thought that since the params were getting passed from the command line, I didn't want to have to deal with sanitizing input for the array. However, this process does individual tasks by calling jobs from a main shell process. I know I'll be getting the same input every time from the automatic process, so this should be no problem.
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