Shell script to pass arguments and validation of arguments in side shell

The below is a simple shell script snippet which accepts two kinds of parameters(1. start 2. -start) while running.

How to validate these parameters and how to run the shell script accordingly is the main motto :)

set -x
if [[ "$1" == "start" || "$1" == "-start" ]]; then
echo "code for start action"
else
echo "Please input valid arguments"
echo "Usuage: setup.sh start or setup.sh -start "
exit
fi

Hope this helps in passing parameters to installer like scripts.

I observed the behavior of the same script differ in different shells like k shell and bash shell.

Monday, June 06, 2011 // Labels: Shell Scripting, UNIX // 0 comments //

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