getopts

[alexus]

hi

i'm writing shell script and i'm at the point where i need getopts help
how can i use getopts and have multiple arguments (some of them is required and some of them is optional)? for instance.

i need to run shell with following arguments:

--host/ip [host/ip]
--file-list [file-list]

here i also need to run either of those, not together... but one parameter is required, and if someone just run it with --sleep that wouldn't be sufficient since --host/ip or --file-list wasn't specified..

--sleep [time]
--status [print out status]

from what I've Google'ed, all examples only shows you how to take 1 parameter and work with it, but i didn't find any where it would show you how to take more then one and in one case make something required

sounds complicated i know

[falko]

You can reference parameters in a script with $1, $2, $3, ...

For example, if you run a script like this:

./myscript.sh paramter1 parameter2

then $1 contains parameter1, and $2 parameter2.

[insistkool]

Hi,
try perl Getopt module, very easy to use

http://perldoc.perl.org/index-modules-G.html