I was talking to the content editors at ittoolbox.com yesterday, and
they have a (fairly) new feature called Code Exchange. There's a section
specifically for Linux, although there isn't much in it yet.  They would
be thrilled to get more submissions if anyone is interested.


On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 17:46, Digital Wokan wrote:
> $1=$(($2))
> 
> On Monday 29 July 2002 12:37, Bryce C wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me how, in a bash script, I can move the contents of
> > variable $2 to variable $1 and so on?  I'm writing a bash script to
> > update some stuff but I'd like to be able to type
> > script.sh noblah noit nothat
> > but everything is defaulted yes.
> > Currently., my script is something like
> > case "$1" in
> > 	noblah)
> > 		echo Not doing blah.
> > 		$1="$2"
> > 	;;
> > 	*)
> > 		echo Doing blah;
> > 	;;
> > esac
> > case "$1" in
> > 	nothis)
> > 		echo Not doing this.
> > 		$1="$2"
> > 	;;
> > 	*)
> > 		echo Doing this
> > 	;;
> > esac
> >
> > That sort of thing.  Can anyone help?  Perhaps a nice online reference?
> > No books though, I don't have the money or time to buy one.
> >
> > Thanks,
> 
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