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
You can reference parameters in a script with $1, $2, $3, ... For example, if you run a script like this: Code: ./myscript.sh paramter1 parameter2 then $1 contains parameter1, and $2 parameter2.
