-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I also recall in a Howto that I looked at a statement to the effect that bash variables were typeless. That's esentially what Damien pointed out. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Michael Damien Curran wrote: > Hi, > Simply just use the variables $1 and $2. > In bash there is no difference between integers and strings. > Just for interest sake, $0 is the file name of the script ... how it was > called. > e.g. > AddTwoNumbers 3 4 > $0 has a value of "AddTwoNumbers" > $1 contains 3 > and $2 contains 4 > Hope this helps > Mick > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:24:32PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > Can someone please tell me how to write a bash script that would accept 2 > > arguments from the command line, where the first argument would be an > > integer like 1234567, and the second argument would be a text string? > > I would then like to be able to access the variables inside the script > > via $VAR1 and $VAR2. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > Greg > > > > > > -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > --- > Michael D. Curran > WWW: http://redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/~mdcurran/ > Email: mick at jantrid.net > MSN: mick at jantrid.net > AOL: manchi2003 > Yahoo: manchi20032000 > ICQ UIN: 113763334 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/MY89GT7f58lCbH0RAjVBAJ9J3r8RrPTudGNjOh/LdE/n5nPMXgCbBsMg YaZ34EwEozeJqA/6oqyaNOQ= =PlB6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
