On Monday 29 August 2005 20:18, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Monday 29 August 2005 2:06 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Monday 29 August 2005 1:59 pm, Chadley Wilson wrote:

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Greetings,,,

Mmmm, I hit a blank

I know how to use read in conbination with echo, but have forgotten what we use for passing parameters to a script:

for example If I write script called hello

you would executei it like so :

./hello James

capture James as a variable,,,, etc

Easy. #!/bin/bash read VAR echo $VAR

Actually, I misread exactly what you wanted, still easy: #!/bin/bash #make sure you have at least 1 argument if [ $# = 0 ];then exit; fi echo $1 -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Now where Did I put my brains? (Ha ha) Thanks guys I was going a bit over board, and missed the obvious. -- -- Chadley Wilson Production Line Superintendant Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================