Hmmm, im not sure what youre trying to do, but I use this reference
alot...
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
On 29 Jul 2002, 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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-Eddie