System-level scripts & parameters

[David Jondreau]

It's great I can run run system-level scripts through FMS. There is an option to include parameters, but I've never used that. How would a shell script access those parameters?

A quick look at Unix scripting makes me think that if I pass parameters as...

ABC 321 "blue dog"

...then I can reference those parameters as $0 $1 and $2.

so:

echo "i like the $2"

would return

i like the blue dog

Is that the correct method for handling system-level script parameters?

Thanks,

DJ

[dansmith65]

That sounds close to me - you should probably do a test to confirm, though. I think $0 might be the name of the script, and $1 is the first parameter.

[lance123]

Hi David, Interested in this too. Let us all know if you end up with a test result. Regards, Lance

[Wim Decorte]

That's how it is done. Make sure to use quotes around parameter values that have spaces in them.

On Windows I would use a VBscript rather than a batch file when I need to pass parameters. VBscript allows for more power in the code to work with the parameters (or arguments as they are called) - putting them in a nice array.